A 23-year-old woman starved to death during 67 exorcism rituals over nine months. Anneliese Michel suffered from treatable epilepsy and depression, but her family and priests convinced her she was possessed by demons including Judas Iscariot and Adolf Hitler. Her death in 1976 shocked Germany and led to the prosecution of two priests and her parents for manslaughter through criminal neglect—a landmark case exposing shared religious psychosis and the dangers of prioritizing spiritual belief over medical intervention. Anneliese Michel was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy and clinical depression by multiple doctors, but her family rejected psychiatric treatment after a local priest claimed she was demonically possessed.