Things that in elden times were considered signs of demonic possion? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Things that in elden times were considered signs of demonic possion? [Archive] - Wizards Community

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DX2052
06-24-07, 08:53 PM what are traits such such as red hair or left handedness that the bearer would have been considered "possessed" (and no this is not for a Warlock)
warwinner
06-25-07, 12:28 AM Pretty much anything priests/random neighbours/seers thought meant so.If you didn't behave nice to everyone -BAM- you're demonspawn

There are two types of possession, divine and demonic.Only priests/holy men/divinely blessed seem to be divinely possessed

Snatched from wikipedia -Demonic possession entry

Later, in the Middle Ages, a list of symptoms required to confirm demonic oppression was carefully prepared:

The ability to curse/blaspheme in languages unknown to the person.
The ability to find secret things, read the mind, and divine future happenings.
The ability to make physical efforts abnormal for that person.
The act of spitting or vomiting every object the demons would have made the person swallow.
Other symptoms occasionally listed include:

Fear and/or hatred of holy objects.
The inability to say the word "insert god here".
Normally, only one of these symptoms was enough to determine demonization. It was said by people of that time that oppressed persons had an ugly and terrible aspect, wrathful eyes, bluish lips, foam coming off their mouth; their body was almost permanently shaking, when they spoke their tongue came abnormally out, their speech consisted mainly in curses and blasphemies, and they were able to imitate animal sounds as well as to speak with human-like voices with a strange sound and a different pitch of theirs
pbradley179
07-04-07, 02:34 PM Being politically inconveien was another one.
DX2052
07-05-07, 10:08 PM inconveien

What does that word mean, I've searched the 3 dictionarys on my shelf and Wikitionary, but I can't find it.
Sulgran
07-05-07, 11:14 PM What does that word mean, I've searched the 3 dictionarys on my shelf and Wikitionary, but I can't find it.

That was probably meant to be "inconvenient".

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
DX2052 06-24-07, 08:53 PM	what are traits such such as red hair or left handedness that the bearer would have been considered "possessed" (and no this is not for a Warlock)
warwinner 06-25-07, 12:28 AM	Pretty much anything priests/random neighbours/seers thought meant so.If you didn't behave nice to everyone -BAM- you're demonspawn There are two types of possession, divine and demonic.Only priests/holy men/divinely blessed seem to be divinely possessed Snatched from wikipedia -Demonic possession entry Later, in the Middle Ages, a list of symptoms required to confirm demonic oppression was carefully prepared: The ability to curse/blaspheme in languages unknown to the person. The ability to find secret things, read the mind, and divine future happenings. The ability to make physical efforts abnormal for that person. The act of spitting or vomiting every object the demons would have made the person swallow. Other symptoms occasionally listed include: Fear and/or hatred of holy objects. The inability to say the word "insert god here". Normally, only one of these symptoms was enough to determine demonization. It was said by people of that time that oppressed persons had an ugly and terrible aspect, wrathful eyes, bluish lips, foam coming off their mouth; their body was almost permanently shaking, when they spoke their tongue came abnormally out, their speech consisted mainly in curses and blasphemies, and they were able to imitate animal sounds as well as to speak with human-like voices with a strange sound and a different pitch of theirs
pbradley179 07-04-07, 02:34 PM	Being politically inconveien was another one.
DX2052 07-05-07, 10:08 PM	inconveien What does that word mean, I've searched the 3 dictionarys on my shelf and Wikitionary, but I can't find it.
Sulgran 07-05-07, 11:14 PM	What does that word mean, I've searched the 3 dictionarys on my shelf and Wikitionary, but I can't find it. That was probably meant to be "inconvenient".