http://www.bt.dk/nyheder/menighed-til-k ... -djaevelen
"Well, I must admit., I firmly believe that this Pokémon character's abilities may also operate on me - as long as I have the card in this house," he says.
It appears otherwise innocuous, the play card.
But for hundreds of natives, it is nothing less than a demon from hell, lying there on the coffee table. A demon who has cast spells over several of the island's rocky distraught residents - might have tried to kill them.
BT dared to bring a deck in the back pocket - and visited the island where the "Miracle on Haslevej" has fueled both ritual burnings and dramatic healings.
The main character is called Flemming Frandsen, 43-year-old chairman of the Missionary Union church in Ronne. Over a hearty breakfast buffet in home on Haslevej, says the friendly student teachers the story of how Pokémon phenomenon has caused natives diseases as well as physical ailments - including his own wife, Lila.
"It can not continue to be random," as Frandsen states about where a ritual burning of Pokémon cards has led to one miraculous healing after another.
On Bornholm all know the story of Frandsen's own miracle. The day, which began a violent crusade against the popular children's game. The story of the lady Lillis paralysis and subsequent recovery. The story of Pokémon - Satan's own favorite card game.
[it appears it's an American pastor who come and find the source of evil]
"A guy I know from the Net, has long gone to physiotherapy for his back. He burned his son's Pokemon cards and is now cured," says Flemming.
"A boy from søndagssskolen could not sleep and tried to throw his Pokémon doll out. Now he sleeps better," says Mrs Lilli.
The stories of illness and healing were more.
Before Christmas, they burned the Pokémon cards in countless Christians, Bornholm home. And Flemming Frandsen still see how Pokémon have hard times on a rocky island.
"As late as the day before yesterday there was a girl in the class that I teach, who pulled a Pokémon eraser up of pencil case. And the other children responded simply by moving the chair away from her," he says.
"We believe strongly that Pokémon is the devil's work. I read about him priest in Scotland, who performed a ritual burning of Pokémon cards during the service. It is actually the same thing we do, even if only in the fireplace"
Pokémon miracle on Haslevej has divided the city in two - between the believers and those shaking their head. In-between is the manager of the city's [toy store], devil's own backyard. A faithful churchgoer, but also a major supplier of Pokémon. He has, according to Frandsen promised his congregation not to recommend the purchase of Pokémon. Yesterday, when BT stopped by the store, the Pokémon games, however, was reduced to half price. And the manager himself was a walk in the woods.
In the Christian Peter School in Ronne, where Flemming Frandsen is currently temporary, the headmaster Lisbet Ronne-Rasmussen no plans to change the school's prohibition of Pokémon. And the story of the "Miracle on Haslevej" she knows everything.
"I have tried to determine whether there could be something over-religious of the game. Now I can not see.
The games are banned at the school. It gave just problems, "she says, confirming Frandsen's history: that many of the kids at school hate Pokémon.
23 Apr 2014, 5:51 pm
