Possession: Demoniacal and Other
Summary
POSSESSION DEMONIACAL AND OTHER AMONG PRIMITIVE RACES, IN ANTIQUITY, THE MIDDLE AGES, AND MODERN TIMES by T. K. OESTERREICH PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TUBINGEN LONDON. Originally published in I930. Contents include; TRANSLATORS NOTE . . . . ix FOREWORD xi PART I THE NATURE OF THE STATE OF POSSESSION INTRODUCTION THE CONSTANT NATURE OF POSSESSION THROUGHOUT THE AGES ....... 3 CHAPTER I. SOURCES . . . . . .12 II. THE EXTERNAL SIGNS OF POSSESSION . . 17 Changes in the physiognomy of the possessed, 17. Changes of voice, 19. Muscular strength, 22. Old descriptions, 25. III. THE SUBJECTIVE STATE OF THE POSSESSED . 26 i. THE SOMNAMBULISTIC FORM OF POSSESSION. Apparent substitution of the spiritual individuality oper ating in the organism, 26. Examples of dialogues with possessing spirits, 29. Autobiography of one of these, 81. Somnambulistic possession without inner duplica tion, 32. Transformation of the personality, 34. The problem of division of the subject, 36. ii. THE LUCID FORM OF P
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