Xolkriśgir: Difference between revisions

How ''xolkriśgir'' manifests itself and how it is understood vary greatly, and while some details of how people understand ''xolkriśgir'' are common to a particular demographic or geographic region, most appear to be idiosyncratic, suggesting to anthropologists that chromophobia should be approached not as a "folk belief" transmitted by oral tradition within a community, but rather as a "modern" mass-cultural phenomenon or enduring {{wp|moral panic}} that spreads and replicates itself through informally learned behaviour. Differences in how individuals believe the malign influence of colour photography "works" extend to its ascribed effects (e.g. whether any part of the body "counts" or just the face, whether the subject must pose voluntarily in order to lose their soul), how it is accomplished (e.g. whether the act of taking the photo does it, or it needs to be developed), and its finality (e.g. whether the effects are permanent or can be abrogated by destroying photographs of the afflicted person or through any kind of folk-ritual). Colour photographs of things other than people are fine? Sepia tone is okay?