But it turned out he was struggling because he believed a demonic spirit had invaded the cabin — and, at some point during the flight, began swallowing rosary beads to ward that spirit off.

He was apprehended by airport police and taken to a hospital for “ingestion of rosary beads,” the affidavit says. Then the passenger was booked into the Chatham County jail.

Composite photograph of beads weighing an average of 0.0708 grams and measuring 5 millimeters in diameter, taken from a ton of scallops found at the Montelirio site in southern Spain. D.W.W. The ...

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