They decide to stay in it for the night to meet the movers in the morning, but begin to get the creeps when the weird neighbor starts poking around. Five people receive an anonymous letter revealing a secret of theirs and inviting them to come stay at a mansion that houses a clinic run by a corrupt doctor who experiments on the brain of his comatose son. Ann Grodzins Gold provides a useful definition and discussion of the term spirit possession in her study of possession in rural Rajasthan (1988, p.

After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police. Three friends on a New Year's Eve snowmobiling excursion find themselves stranded at an abandoned lodge where the elderly female innkeeper is concealing a sinister secret. As Western missionaries and academics began recording information about other cultures, the force and vivacity of spirit possession repeatedly drew authors to describe and discuss possession, producing a tremendous volume of materials. A harmless game of Truth or Dare among friends turns deadly when someone - or something - begins to punish those who tell a lie or refuse the dare.that begin with the assumption that possessions are abnormal behaviors and result from social, physical, and mental deprivations. Signifiers of possessed subjectivity that cross the historical spectrum of case studies include nonautonomous models of agency, heteroglossia, and volatility that attracts the attention of a community and relates to gendered notions of the ambivalent power of receptivity. com gives you the ability to cite reference entries and articles according to common styles from the Modern Language Association (MLA), The Chicago Manual of Style, and the American Psychological Association (APA). A present day erotic horror about an aristocratic woman who inherits her family's castle and with it the werewolf curse.

Tracks the dynamics and movement of women's involvement in Zar-Bori and the tension between Muslim authorities and women's practice.Rose, a mostly sweet and lonely Irish driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet and lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to reignite his fame.

The women stop work when possessed by hantu (ambivalent ghosts or spirits) and weretigers (akin to werewolves) in the factories. Arthur criticizes the argument that the Bacchic chorus is irrational and instead traces the subtle thematic development of its odes, depicting its steady and consistent power, born in part through its receptivity to Dionysos, making it powerful over Pentheus and his hypermasculine effort to resist Dionysos. A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon. Noting that the phrase "divine vessels" is used to describe clay images and "god dancers" (possessed dancers) in a Tamilnadu lineage, Inglis notes that this particular lineage is perceived to be particularly fitted for the work of making clay images in which the deities manifest themselves by making their bodies receptive to divine interventions. Studying one of the most important healing deities in Madras, Mariamman, the Smallpox Goddess, Egnor discusses why Smallpox has been deified as a feminine, maternal divinity in Madras, while most of the Sinhalese disease demons took male forms.

The male has a dark emerald-green throat, a pair of long tail-wires and is adorned with ornamental flank plumes which are deep yellow at their base and fade outwards into white. From a revalued approach to the power of possession, it is the work, war, and performance of possessions that merit analysis. Rasmussen (1995), and Judy Rosenthal (1998) bring contemporary French psychoanalytic theory ( Jacques Lacan) to the analysis of possessed language. Egnor discusses the negotiated relationship between Mariamman and Sarasvati, her servant, and traces the changing role of Mariamman with the eradication of smallpox. The Tale of Genji is a masterpiece of medieval Japanese literature, and Bargen studies the role of spirit possession among women from an interdisciplinary perspective.

In many vodou traditions the possessed person is considered to be a chwal, or horse, who is mounted by her spirits (Brown, 1987, p. Nehanda was revered in the songs of the socialist-inspired armies of the second, successful chimurenga, and the Nehanda mhondoro of the second chimurenga inherited the potent legacy of the first Nehanda. In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island. This definition highlights the problem of subjectivity and agency; the possessed person is not a conscious individual but rather has a blotted consciousness and has become an instrument for the will of an alien power.An ethnography of peasants in Columbia and Bolivia and their indigenous religious practices regarding the presence of the devil in the money of the capitalist developments in their regions. Social psychologists and ethnopsychologists have suggested that the difference found in the model of subjectivity of a possessed person and the model of subjectivity employed by modern psychology (that of an individual whose sickness is located in an individual psyche) leads to different levels of community-wide mental health.