The women stop work when possessed by hantu (ambivalent ghosts or spirits) and weretigers (akin to werewolves) in the factories. Postcolonial literary scholars (Cooper, 1992; Henderson, 1993) have noted the significance of the possessed woman as a literary trope that signifies the experience of having multiple languages and heritages speak through a subject, particularly women. Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.

Ann Grodzins Gold provides a useful definition and discussion of the term spirit possession in her study of possession in rural Rajasthan (1988, p. 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.

This prevalence of material is particularly important in the study of women's religious lives because the records provide information when other references are minimal or nonexistent. Important examples include the maenads of Greek antiquity who appear in Greek tragedies such as Euripides' Bacchae ; women possessed by the mono no ke spirit described in The Tale of Genji, a masterpiece of medieval Japanese literature (Bargen, 1997); and the dybbukim of medieval Eastern European Hasidic Jews described in the acclaimed play The Dybbuk, by S. In 1905, a drifter on a dangerous mission to rescue his kidnapped sister tangles with a sinister religious cult on an isolated island.

Truth be told, even in the modern era, there still exists some faint glimmers of the times that were, beings that embody the mystique and wonder of the bygone times. Discusses the polyvalent Punjabi notion of play and applies this linguistic context to her study of goddesses who play their mediums. An extroverted introvert is someone who mostly dwells on the introverted side of the personality but possesses many extroverted traits. In terms of the wars engaged by possessed women's bodies, there are two central types: gender conflict and territorial conflict. Applying Gold's logic, the term spirit possession is used below with caution, noting: (1) the importance of translating specific linguistic terms (discussed below); and (2) that the term possession carries with it many overdetermined connotations regarding Western notions of property and subjectivity as epitomized in the idea of a self-possessed individual.

From a revalued perspective, however, the religious person is approached as a training and disciplining person, whose body is prepared to enact the will of its deity, and thus there is no viable distinction between a religious and a political struggle. From the perfect match going straight to Yvonne out of the blue, and the unexpected dark side of the story. In Gods of Flesh, Gods of Stone: The Embodiment of Divinity in India, edited by Joanne Punzo Waghorne and Norman Cutler. Similarly, in The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America (1980), Michael Taussig interprets indigenous spirits as a critical reaction to commodity fetishism in South America. 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.

Possession , The ownership, control, or occupancy of a thing, most frequently land orpersonal property, by a person. When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family. A young Bohemian female artist falls in love with a nubile human-eating alien and teaches him how to be more human.

As a model of subjectivity it is the instrumentality rather than the autonomy that marks the possessed person's speech and actions.In two chimurengas, or battles for freedom (1890 and 1950 –1970), an older woman possessed by Nehanda significantly inspired and focused the fight against colonizers. In all of these instances, a complex model of human agency is evoked by the notion that the human will and consciousness have been overcome, and that the human body has become receptive to the intervening agency of the possessing spirit. A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s. When a horror film buff tries to warn his friends spending spring break in a house in the woods of impending danger, they scoff at him, that is, until a huge mutant frog starts to pick them up one by one.