Stigmata
...laces that the stigmata wounds appear, but some wounds have been slashes across a person’s back or sides, legs, arms, and even around the forehead in place of the crown of the crucifix made of thorns. Stigmata can be visible blood and wounds to the body, or sometimes it is invisible, but those who have experienced it remember extreme pain in the same areas of the body. Another effect of stigmata is said to be partial levitation, but levitation is not as common an effect of this experience as the wounds and the pain. As sudden and spontaneous as these wounds and sufferings occur, they disappear the same way. Blood will pour out of the wounds for an unknown amount of time, and then suddenly the wound heals. Although unexplainable, sometimes the blood that the stigmatic bleeds is even a different blood type than their own. This hysteria that stigmatics experience can usually only be described as mystical, and is experienced only by a certain group of people. Recorded stigmatics have always been very religious individuals. It may be a man or a woman, and the person is always of Christian faith, usually a Catholic, and sometimes, but not always, a blessed or a saint. There are no records of any type of stigmata before the thirteenth century. The first record of a stigmatic was St. Francis of Assisi, in the year 1222. The wounds on his hands and feet were very similar to those of the Passion of Christ. On one side of both his hands and his feet, the wounds were round, and flat, representing the head of a nail, and on the other side was a long point similar to the tip of a nail. Lots of wounds have been very similar to those experienced by St. Francis, but no two wounds are ever exactly alike, and the variation of which or how many wounds stigmatics actually receive is never constant either. As if have these experiences was not bad enough, they usually occur more than once. In most cases...