Every culture has its stigmata, signs that a person has been touched (figuratively speaking in most cases) by some element of the supernatural. This story comes to us out of Egypt, from Bikyamasr.com, a country now steeped in Arabic culture, but having been a crossroads of mysticism for thousands of years having their own stories, becoming part of the Jewish tradition, a crossroads of Greek and Roman culture, influenced by Christianity, and the passage of the “Gypsies” (who despite the reference to Egypt in their name actually stem from India.)

Egypt teen cries tears of blood, says touched by jinn
Pete Willows 13 April 2012

Egypt teen claims jinn touched her.

CAIRO: An 18-year-old Egyptian girl who shed ‘blood tears’ claimed she had been touched by jinn, which are ghosts and spirits popular in Upper Egyptian folklore.

According to a report in the Arabic language quotidian, Sabea’a, a girl named Dawa’a appeared on Al Nahar Television, to share her experience.

She said she had been touched by tribe of about one-thousand jinn.

Amr Al-Laithi, a Muslim scholar, recited verses from Qur’an as the teenager fell unconscious. When she woke up after about 20 minutes, she claimed she could not remember anything but was suffering an intense headache.

The Muslim scholar explained that the jinn in this case, thankfully, were merely an external influence on the girl. And that this was because there was no change in her voice, and too, that she did she suffer from physical convulsions.

Those frightening symptoms, he asserted, are only seen in cases when jinn are internal and the victim has succumbed to total control.

Neither person was available for comment at press time.

Nor did the jinn offer a motive in their attempt to seize the girl.

Haemolacria, as described in Wikipedia is a physical condition that causes a person to produce tears that are partially composed of blood. It can manifest as tears that are anything from merely red-tinged to appearing to be entirely made of blood, and possible sign of severe head trauma or a tumor, also triggered by severe conjunctivitis and has been related to hormone issues in fertile women.

Rare but not unknown, and open to the interpretations of the the spiritualism that predominates the region. In Patna India, back in 2009 Rashida Khatoon was worshipped as a holy shrine for exhibiting a similar case of crying blood. However much we try, the elusiveness of understanding the workings of the human body will always possess the capacity to produce fear or awe in us.