In July 1906, at St Michael's, a remote Catholic mission in the hills of colonial Natal, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl named Germana Cele handed her priest a note promising herself to the devil. Within weeks the sisters were guarding her during Mass, and the priests were writing to the Bishop of Natal for permission to perform an exorcism.

In Part One of this two-part story, Jess takes Liz back to a mission nobody wanted, run by silent Trappist monks in a colony torn apart by the Bhambatha Rebellion. We cover the girl at the centre of it all, the priest who wrote her story down, a public exorcism that's still told as one of the best documented in Catholic history, and the voice coming out of Germana that started naming names.

Everything is told as the witnesses told it. Whether you believe them is up to you.

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Exorcism isn't mostly demons. It's mostly rules.

From ancient Mesopotamia to the Vatican, we trace the history of exorcism and the long list of rules written to restrain it. Who's allowed to perform one, which churches and countries still practise it, and what went wrong when nobody checked.

Content note: religion, mental illness and a death during a ritual.

Three verdicts. Two and a half years. One murder. In Part Two of our story on Reeva Steenkamp and Oscar Pistorius, we cover the trial that played out live on television, the evidence that didn't add up, the appeal that changed everything, and where Oscar Pistorius is now. We also look at the human cost that never made the headlines: Reeva's family, still fighting for an answer they never got.

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Stay safe and stay skeptical.