The idea that abnormal behavior or a medical condition is evidence that a person is under the control of a supernatural power or spirit. This belief was most commonly held in religion and medicine of the medieval period and is also held in many tribal cultures today
The idea that abnormal behavior or a medical condition is evidence that a person is under the control of a supernatural power or spirit. This belief was most commonly held in religion and medicine of the medieval period and is also held in many tribal cultures today
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Demoniac possession -- See Also the narrower term Demonomania
Demoniac possession -- Netherlands : Witchcraft, exorcism and the politics of possession in a seventeenth-century convent : 'how Sister Ursula was once bewiched and Sister Margaret twice' / Nicky Hallett
The idea that abnormal behavior or a medical condition is evidence that a person is under the control of a supernatural power or spirit. This belief was most commonly held in religion and medicine of the medieval period and is also held in many tribal cultures today
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Demonologi -- historia. : Evil incarnate : rumors of demonic conspiracy and ritual abuse in history / David Frankfurter
2006
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Demonologie. : Thinking with demons : the idea of witchcraft in early modern Europe / Stuart Clark