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Possessed by the spirit of a fox
Identifier
024346
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
K T Oesterreich - Possession
Given the right circumstances and surrounding beliefs a person …..can even become possessed by the spirit of a fox, as in a case reported in 1907 from Japan. A seventeen-year-old girl was lying in bed, suffering from exhaustion and nervous irritability after a bad attack of typhoid.
Her female relatives were sitting round her bed, discussing a ghostly presence, resembling a fox, which had been seen near the house. Hearing this, the sick girl trembled and the fox-spirit possessed her. It spoke through her mouth several times a day in a domineering fashion, abusing and tyrannizing over her.