Possession, Demoniacal And Other: Among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern 0415209528, 9781136304293, 1136304290

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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.

Possession, Demoniacal And Other: Among Primitive Races, in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern
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