The physical toll on Anna was gruesome. She was described as becoming emaciated, her skin translucent, her eyes bulging. At one point, the witnesses claimed she vomited a substance that looked like tobacco leaves and another that resembled tea—a physical expulsion of the "unclean."
The trauma fractured something within Anna. In 1912, she began exhibiting strange symptoms: an aversion to holy water, an inability to enter a church, and violent mood swings. When medical science failed to provide a cure, her aunt, a devout woman, turned to the Church. That year, Father Riesinger performed a successful, albeit quiet, exorcism. Anna returned to a normal life. anna ecklund
Today, the Earling exorcism is often analyzed through both theological and psychological lenses, debated as either a genuine supernatural event or a complex case of severe mental illness exacerbated by religious trauma. The physical toll on Anna was gruesome