The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down is about Lia Lee, a Hmong child who Western Medicine has deemed epileptic, but whose parents are adamant that she has merely had a run in with an evil spirit who has caught her soul. As the mother explained, ‘Your soul is like your shadow…Sometimes it just wanders off like a butterfly and that is when you are sad that’s when you get sick’…

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