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''Xolkriśtívandisuvantohābur'', meaning "Colour-photographically induced catatonia" (a closer, but less medically accurate translation being "colour-photographically induced dementia") is a {{wp|culture-bound syndrome}} of catatonia and amnesia in reaction to colour photography experienced by people of Coscivian cultural origin. | ''Xolkriśtívandisuvantohābur'', meaning "Colour-photographically induced catatonia" (a closer, but less medically accurate translation being "colour-photographically induced dementia") is a {{wp|culture-bound syndrome}} of catatonia and amnesia in reaction to colour photography experienced by people of Coscivian cultural origin. | ||
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Many people who do not believe that colour photography erases one's mind or soul may still believe that it has some other less drastic and more vaguely defined supernatural effect on the subject. Others may not believe that colour photography has supernatural effects at all, yet still view it as unseemly or improper. | Many people who do not believe that colour photography erases one's mind or soul may still believe that it has some other less drastic and more vaguely defined supernatural effect on the subject. Others may not believe that colour photography has supernatural effects at all, yet still view it as unseemly or improper. | ||
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-Geographic and demographic distribution of the superstition | -Geographic and demographic distribution of the superstition | ||
===Implications for Public Policy=== | ===Implications for Public Policy=== | ||
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-Governmental and religious efforts to combat the superstition. | -Governmental and religious efforts to combat the superstition. | ||
[The Technicolor bombings] | |||
Official portraits of all [[Federal Stanora|Stanora]] Delegates are rendered in black-and-white as a matter of course. [[Andrus Candrin]] was the first Kiravian Prime Executive to embrace colour photography, in contrast to his immediate predecessor, Irasur Mérovin, who had stated on the record that colour photographs "'' | Official portraits of all [[Federal Stanora|Stanora]] Delegates are rendered in black-and-white as a matter of course. [[Andrus Candrin]] was the first Kiravian Prime Executive to embrace colour photography, in contrast to his immediate predecessor, Irasur Mérovin, who had stated on the record that colour photographs "''kúnta thá glixélnuir''" ("make [him] uneasy"). Candrin's successor, [[Adheritus Ilkashvar|Adheritus Ilkaśvar]], opts for his official photographs to be black-and-white, but permits colour photography in the [[Kroveniren Hall]] press room. | ||
[[Category:Coscivian culture]] | [[Category:Coscivian culture]] | ||