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Zé Arigó

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Zé Arigó (pseudonym of José Pedro de Freitas 18 October 1921 – 11 January 1971) was a faith healer and proponent of psychic surgery. [1]

41 relations: Altered state of consciousness, Andrija Puharich, Apron, Autobiography, Brazil, Cancer, Catholic Church, Congonhas, Dr. Fritz, Faith healing, Family, Flim-Flam!, Hallucination, Hand, Headache, Hoax, Insomnia, James Randi, João Maria de Jesus, Joe Nickell, Juscelino Kubitschek, Kitchen, Kitchen utensil, License, Lung, Medicine, Mediumship, Minas Gerais, Mining, Neoplasm, Poverty, Primary school, Psychic surgery, Reputation, Robert Todd Carroll, Rubens Farias Jr., Skeptical Inquirer, Sleight of hand, Spirit, Spiritism, The Skeptic's Dictionary.

Altered state of consciousness

An altered state of consciousness (ASC), also called altered state of mind or mind alteration, is any condition which is significantly different from a normal waking state.

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Andrija Puharich

Andrija Puharich (February 19, 1918 – January 3, 1995) — born Henry Karel Puharić — was a medical and parapsychological researcher, medical inventor, physician and author, known as the person who brought Israeli Uri Geller (born 1946) and Dutch-born Peter Hurkos (1911-1988) to the United States for scientific investigation.

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Apron

An apron is a garment that is worn over other clothing and covers mainly the front of the body.

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Brazil

Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.

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Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Congonhas

Congonhas (Congonhas do Campo) is a historical Brazilian city located in the state of Minas Gerais.

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Dr. Fritz

Adolf Fritz, generally called Dr.

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Faith healing

Faith healing is the practice of prayer and gestures (such as laying on of hands) that are believed by some to elicit divine intervention in spiritual and physical healing, especially the Christian practice.

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Family

Every person has his/her own family.mother reproduces with husband for children.In the context of human society, a family (from familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth), affinity (by marriage or other relationship), or co-residence (as implied by the etymology of the English word "family" from Latin familia 'family servants, domestics collectively, the servants in a household,' thus also 'members of a household, the estate, property; the household, including relatives and servants,' abstract noun formed from famulus 'servant, slave ') or some combination of these.

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Flim-Flam!

Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions is a 1980 book by magician and skeptic James Randi about paranormal, occult, and pseudoscience claims.

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Hallucination

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception.

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Hand

A hand is a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm or forelimb of primates such as humans, chimpanzees, monkeys, and lemurs.

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Headache

Headache is the symptom of pain anywhere in the region of the head or neck.

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Hoax

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.

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Insomnia

Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder where people have trouble sleeping.

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James Randi

James Randi (born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge; August 7, 1928) is a Canadian-American retired stage magician and a scientific skeptic who has extensively challenged paranormal and pseudoscientific claims.

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João Maria de Jesus

João Maria de Jesus, born Anastás Marcaf (died) was an itinerant preacher and healer who was active in southern Brazil around the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th century.

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Joe Nickell

Joe Nickell (born December 1, 1944) is an American prominent skeptic and investigator of the paranormal.

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Juscelino Kubitschek

Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (September 12, 1902 – August 22, 1976), known also by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961.

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Kitchen

A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation in a dwelling or in a commercial establishment.

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Kitchen utensil

A kitchen utensil is a small hand held tool used for food preparation.

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License

A license (American English) or licence (British English) is an official permission or permit to do, use, or own something (as well as the document of that permission or permit).

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Lung

The lungs are the primary organs of the respiratory system in humans and many other animals including a few fish and some snails.

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Medicine

Medicine is the science and practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.

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Mediumship

Mediumship is the practice of certain people—known as mediums—to purportedly mediate communication between spirits of the dead and living human beings.

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Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Neoplasm

Neoplasia is a type of abnormal and excessive growth of tissue.

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Poverty

Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.

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Primary school

A primary school (or elementary school in American English and often in Canadian English) is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about seven to twelve, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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Psychic surgery

An alleged psychic surgeon at work. Psychic surgery is a pseudoscientific medical fraud in which the practitioner creates the illusion of performing surgery with his or her bare hands and uses trickery, fake blood, and animal parts to convince the patient that the diseased lesions have been removed and that the incision has spontaneously healed.

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Reputation

Reputation or image of a social entity (a person, a social group, or an organization) is an opinion about that entity, typically as a result of social evaluation on a set of criteria.

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Robert Todd Carroll

Robert Todd Carroll (May 18, 1945 – August 25, 2016) was an American writer and academic.

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Rubens Farias Jr.

Rubens Farias Jr. (1954&ndash) is a Brazilian psychic surgeon, who claims to be a channel for the spirit of Dr. Fritz.

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Skeptical Inquirer

Skeptical Inquirer is a bimonthly American magazine published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) with the subtitle: The Magazine for Science and Reason.

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Sleight of hand

Sleight of hand (also known as prestidigitation or legerdemain) refers to fine motor skills when used by performing artists in different art forms to entertain or manipulate.

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Spirit

A spirit is a supernatural being, often but not exclusively a non-physical entity; such as a ghost, fairy, or angel.

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Spiritism

Spiritism is a spiritualistic religion codified in the 19th century by the French educator Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail, under the codename Allan Kardec; it proposed the study of "the nature, origin, and destiny of spirits, and their relation with the corporeal world".

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The Skeptic's Dictionary

The Skeptic's Dictionary is a collection of cross-referenced skeptical essays by Robert Todd Carroll, published on his website skepdic.com and in a printed book.

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Jose Arigo, Jose Pedro de Freitas, José Arigó, José Pedro de Freitas, Surgeon of the Rusty Knife, Ze Arigo.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zé_Arigó

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