Séglas on parasites and possession, 122
Self-criticism in lucid possession, 45
Seligmann, C. G., and B. on the Veddas, 246–52
Semler, J. S., on diffusion of possession, 154; on belief in possession, 192
Sethe, K., on the , 151–2
Sexual feelings in possession, 86, 90
Shamanism, trae, 294 sqq.; genuineness of, 295–6; anæsthesia in, 299; somnambulism in, 299; psychic state of shamans, 299–300; choice of shamans, 300–2; social importance of shamans, 304; — not a state of possession, 305; shamanistic ceremonies, 305–7; Russian literature of —, 306 sq.; — a primitive form of dramatic spectacle, 308; physiological effects of shamanizing, 309; true — and possession-Shamanism, 309; need for investigation, 309–10; analogy with devil-dances of Ceylon, 350; Wu-priest-hood a branch of—, 355–8; analogy with possession amongst the Ba-Ronga, 378; parapsychic phenomena and —, 381
Shamanism, so-called, 236 sq.; amongst the pigmies, 243–6, the Veddas, 246–52; in Africa, 253–65, the Bataks, 265–76, the Dyaks, 276, the Tonga Islanders, 276–80, the Melanesians, 280–4; in New Guinea, 284–6; in Polynesia, 286; in America, 286–93
Sharp weapons, cure of possession by threat of, 107
Shivashakti, story of the, 214–5
Shop-girls, case of impersonation of, 45
Siam, possession in modern, 217; autosuggestibility in, 237; voluntary possession in, 352–5
Sibyls, the, 156 note, 332–5
Sickness. See Physical maladies
Sight of possessed persons a cause of possession, 92
Sin, regarded as possession by Early Church, 163; remorse for — a cause of possession, 109–17, 162
Skeat, W. W., on the pigmies of the Malay Peninsula, 245–6; on the Malays, 273–6
Snouck, Hurgronje, on Zar-possession 231–2
Socrates, the dœmon of, 386
Sollier, on self-criticism in lucid possession, 45
Somnambuliform possession, 26 sq., 39; the Fritz-Algar case, 70–5
Somnambulism defined, 39; distinguished from possession, 39; suggestibility in, 104–5; somnambulistic suggestion, 110 sq.; — and voluntary possession, 341
Souls of the dead, possession by. See Dead
Spanish abbess, lucid possession of a, 41
Spirits, belief in, in the modern world, 376–9. See also Demons and Angels
Spiritualism, the modern stronghold of voluntary possession, 202; — in China, 219; in the Malay Archipelago, 265–76; in modern Europe and North America, 365–75
Staudenmaier, L., case of, 15, 57–60
Stigmata, bleeding, produced by faith, 100
Stöhr, modern Catholic view of possession, 200–1
Strabo, on the Adyton, 314
Strauss, D. F., on possession, 193–4; on parapsychic phenomena, 384–5
Subject registers only its own states, 36, 54; incapable of division, 37; identification of, with secondary personality, 66
Suggestibility, psychic state during enhanced, 100; greater in somnambulistic than waking state, 105; greater in primitive races, 134, 138; abnormal — amongst savages, 238, amongst the Tripolitanians, 261; low degree of — amongst Red Indians, 293
Suggestion and autosuggestion, physiological effects of, 100; — and artificial extinction of possession, 96–9, 100; analysis of, by Lipps and Vogt, 100 note
Suicide, obsessions of, 81, 82; auto-suggestive —, 238–9
Sulpicius Severus, description of an exorcist, 160–1; on cures from a distance, 166
Sumerians, the, 148
Surin, Father, case of, 14, 50–7, 77; mentioned by J. des Anges, 90; example of psychic infection, 92; compared with Finow’s son, 278, with Freimark’s case, 370–1
Suso, H., case of, 80, 81
Swabian romantics, Schelling, Kerner, Eschenmayer, 194–5
Swine, the Gadarene, 3, 124 note
Sympathetic sickness, 237
Symptoms of possession, 139, in Siam, 217–8
Syria, possession of a Syrian princess, 149–51; possession in —, 151; in the Middle Ages, 185; a modern case from Nebk, 212
Talmud, possession in the, 176
Taoist priests as mediums, 361, 363
Tatars, Shamanism amongst the, 299
Telekinesia in possession, 366, 381–2
Teleutes, Shamanism amongst the, 294
Temptations and obsessions amongst the religious, 80–2
Tertullian on early Christian exorcism, 166–7
Theological view of possession, 32–77, 80, 83; of obsession, 83
Theophilus on poetical possession, 328
Thompson, R. C., version of a Babylonian inscription, 148–9
Threshold of acceptance, the, 68
Tiger-spirit amongst the pigmies, 244–5; the Malays, 273–5
Tonga Islanders, voluntary possession amongst, 238, 276–80, 371
Tranquille, Father, case of, 92; death of, 117–8
Transformation of the state of compulsion, 83 sq.
Tremearne, possession – dances amongst the Hausa, 255–63
Tremendum, sentiment of, produced by possession, 377
Tshuktsh, Shamanism amongst the, 294, 304, 306
Tunguses, Shamanism amongst the, 294, 299, 301, 304
Unconscious processes of the possessing spirit, 122–3; problem of the —, 123
Veddas of Ceylon, voluntary possession amongst, 246–52; compared with Siberian shamans, 300, 308
Vettius Valens, on the , 152–3
Vianney, J. B. M. St., curé of Ars, and the possessed, 195
Vindessi, the, 285
Virgil on the Sibyls, 331, 335
Visions, 83, 94, 267, 269, 271; amongst the Bacchantes, 340
Voluntary possession, 236 sq.; distinguished from spontaneous possession, 241; somnambulism and —, 241; preceded by collapse, 241; by animals, 242; nature dependent on autosuggestive expectation, 243; — in higher civilizations to-day, 348 sq.
Waldmeier, T., possession in Abyssinia, 136–7
Wales, possession in, 195
Warneck on the Bataks, 267–72
Watseka Wonder, the, 210–1
Were-wolves, 191; — -lions, 145
Westphalus, J. C., case of hysteroepilepsy, 34
Will, the, in possession, 67 sq.
Wind, onset of possession in, 94, 136
Witchcraft, 190 note, 191, 192
Women more liable to possession than men, 144, 231
Wu-priesthood in China, 355–60
Yakuts, Shamanism amongst the, 294, 299, 301, 304–5
Zar, the, possession by, in Egypt, 230–5
Zeno of Verona, on possession and exorcism, 7–8
Zikr-dance, 233
Zooanthropy, 191–2
Zulus, possession amongst, 138–9, 265, 381; possession by spirits of, 141–2