Table of contents : Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents TRANSLATOR'S NOTE FOREWORD PART I THE NATURE OF THE STATE OF POSSESSION INTRODUCTION THE CONSTANT NATURE OF POSSESSION THROUGHOUT THE AGES CHAPTER I SOURCES CHAPTER II THE EXTERNAL SIGNS OF POSSESSION CHAPTER III THE SUBJECTIVE STATE OF THE POSSESSED 1. THE SOMNAMBULISTIC FORM OF POSSESSION 2. THE LUCID FORM OF POSSESSION CHAPTER IV THE GENESIS AND EXTINCTION OF POSSESSION EXORCISM PART II THE DISTRIBUTION OF POSSESSION AND ITS IMPORTANCE FROM THE STANDPOINT OF REGLIGIOUS PSYCHOLOGY. CHAPTER V SPONTANEOUS POSSESSION PROPERLY SO CALLED AMONGST PRIMITIVE RACESCHAPTER VI SPONTANEOUS POSSESSION IN THE HIGHER CIVILIZATIONS (i.) IN THE PAST (ii.) IN THE PRESENT CHAPTER VII ARTIFICIAL AND VOLUNTARY POSSESSION AMONGST PRIMITIVE PEOPLES. SO-CALLED SHAMANISM CHAPTER VIII THE SHAMANISM OF THE NORTH ASIATIC PEOPLES IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO POSSESSION CHAPTER IX ARTIFICIAL AND VOLUNTARY POSSESSION AMONGST THE HIGHER CIVILIZATIONS (i.) IN THE PAST (THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD) (ii.) IN THE PRESENT CONCLUSION APPENDIX ON PARAPSYCHOLOGY INDEX.