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I am a great fan of this series and had pre-ordered this as soon as I knew it was coming out. The other interesting thing is that very little of the story has anything to do with the Thames at all, though convict transport to Australia and return to England do feature. I do enjoy a good-locked room mystery, and I also like to see how the various plot strands come together as they inevitably do. Very ingeniously done in this case, with a whiff of the not entirely natural which has been a theme of the series. The reading experience was an unusual one for me in that I started the novel some time ago and then a combination of increased workload before holiday never a good time to read anything that requires attention in my experience and the previously mentioned anxiety about what the author was going to put Abigail through meant that it languished on the TBR pile until I found myself in a hotel in the south-west of Scotland where I could give it the attention it deserved, and I read the last third in a single sitting late into the night.

And very satisfying it was too. It is also the book that got me to my target of 52 books in 52 weeks, so everything I read after that is a bonus! October 24, in Challenges 1 comment.

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By the end of this weekend and before I return to work after a three week break, I aim to have written and published or scheduled the following:. I also want to scope out my reading list for November where I want to focus on books about WWI as mentioned here.

October 24, in Challenges , Reviews Tags: Let the Old Dreams Die is a book of horror short stories by the Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist, first published in but only relatively recently available in an English language translation. I really enjoyed this collection which I read over several days while on holiday, staying in a former stately home in Cumbria.

This is definitely a one sweetie at a time thing. October 24, in Reviews Tags: Horror , RIP 4 comments. Edward Prendick survives a shipwreck and is picked up by another ship transporting a strange cargo under the direction of the disreputable Montgomery to a mysterious island in the tropics, home to Dr Moreau and his laboratory. Prendick finds out that Moreau is experimenting on animals, continuing work he started back in England but which appalled those in the know so much that he was forced to leave if he wished to continue his research.

The callous disregard he has for the subjects of his experiments and the torture he puts them through does not end well, but what will it mean for Prendick? The beasts themselves are for the most part not well developed and the social satire elements were lost on me. So many of the references are embedded in popular culture but I must admit that as a novel it left me entirely cold.

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As per the blurb: Why did I want to read it? What did I think of it? Loved it, and looking forward to reading the next one. And of course the two stories will inevitably come together. But what of the plot? She had ultimately led a failed insurrection against governmental forces. A belief in spirit possession appears among the Xesibe , a Xhosa speaking people from Transkei , South Africa.

The majority of the supposedly possessed are married women. The condition of spirit possession among them is called inwatso. Those who develop the condition of inwatso are regarded as having a special calling to divine the future. They are first treated with sympathy, and then with respect as they allegedly develop their abilities to foretell the future.

The Sukuma people of Tanzania believe in spirit possession. A now extinct spirit possession cult existed among the Hadimu women of Zanzibar , revering a spirit called kitimiri. This cult described in an account by a French missionary. The cult faded by the s and was virtually unknown by the s. In Haitian Vodou and related African diaspora traditions , one way that those who participate or practice can have a spiritual experience is by being possessed by the Loa or lwa. When the loa descends upon a practitioner, the practitioner's body is being used by the spirit, according to the tradition.

Some spirits are believed to be able to give prophecies of upcoming events or situations pertaining to the possessed one, also called Chwal or the "Horse of the Spirit. Most people who are possessed by the spirit describe the onset as a feeling of blackness or energy flowing through their body as if they were being electrocuted. According to Vodou believers, when this occurs, it is a sign that a possession is about to take place.

According to tradition, the practitioner has no recollection of the possession and in fact when the possessing spirit leaves the body, the possessed one is tired and wonders what has happened during the possession. It is also believed that there are those who feign possessions because they want attention or a feeling of importance, because those who are possessed carry a high importance in ceremony. Often, a chwal will undergo some form of trial or testing to make sure that the possession is allegedly genuine.

If the chwal consumes the piment without showing any evidence of pain or discomfort, the possession is regarded as genuine. The concept of spirit possession is also found in Umbanda , an Afro-Brazilian folk religion. According to tradition, one such possessing spirit is Pomba Gira , who possesses both women and effeminate males.

According to the Indian medical literature and Tantric Buddhist scriptures, most of the "seizers," or those that threaten the lives of young children, appear in animal form: But apart from these "nightmare shapes," it is believed the impersonation or incarnation of animals could in some circumstances also be highly beneficial, according to Michel Strickmann.

Ch'i Chung-fu, a Chinese gynecologist writing early in the thirteenth century, wrote that in addition to five sorts of falling frenzy classified according to their causative factors, there were also four types of other frenzies distinguished by the sounds and movements given off by the victim during his seizure: Certain sects of Taoism , Korean shamanism , Shinto , some Japanese new religious movements, and other East Asian religions feature the idea of spirit possession.

Some sects feature shamans who supposedly become possessed, or mediums who allegedly channel beings' supernatural power, or enchanters who it is said imbue or foster spirits within objects, like samurai swords. See Chinese spirit possession , Shi personator. See Shamanism of the Solon People. The concept of spirit possession exists in the culture of modern Rajasthan. Some of the spirits allegedly possessing Rajasthanis are seen as good and beneficial, while others are seen as malevolent.

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Bad spirits are believed to include perpetual debtors who die in debt, stillborn infants, deceased widows, and foreign tourists. The supposedly possessed individual is referred to as a ghorala , or "mount". Possession, even if by a benign spirit, is regarded as undesirable, as it is seen to entail loss of self-control, and violent emotional outbursts.

Tamil women in India are said to experience possession by peye spirits. According to tradition, these spirits overwhelmingly possess new brides, are usually identified as the ghosts of young men who died while romantically or sexually frustrated, and are ritually exorcised.

The animist traditions of the island of Bali Indonesia include a practice called sanghyang , induction of voluntary possession trance states for specific purposes. Roughly similar to voluntary possession in Vaudon Voodoo , sanghyang is considered a sacred state in which hyangs deities or helpful spirits temporarily inhabit the bodies of participants.

The purpose of sanghyang is believed to be to cleanse people and places of evil influences and restore spiritual balance. Thus, it is often referred to as an exorcism ceremony. The women of the Bonerate people of Sulawesi , Indonesia practice a possession-trance ritual in which they smother glowing embers with their bare feet at the climax. The fact that they are not burned in the process is considered proof of the authenticity of the possession.

Female workers in Malaysian factories have allegedly become possessed by spirits, and factory owners generally regard it as mass hysteria and an intrusion of irrational and archaic beliefs into a modern setting. The anthropologist Aihwa Ong noted that spirit possession beliefs in Malaysia were typically held by older, married women, whereas the female factory workers are typically young and unmarried.

She connects this to the rapid industrialization and modernization of Malaysia. Ong argued that spirit possession is a traditional way of rebelling against authority without punishment, and suggests that it is a means of protesting the untenable working conditions and sexual harassment that the women were compelled to endure. The Coast Veddas , a social group within the minority group of Sri Lankan Tamil people in Eastern Province, Sri Lanka , enter trances during religious festivals in which they are regarded as being possessed by a spirit.

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Although they speak a dialect of Tamil , during trances they will sometimes use a mixed language that contains words from the Vedda language. The Urapmin people of the New Guinea Highlands practice a form of group possession known as the "spirit disco" Tok Pisin: The concept of spirit possession appears in Chuuk State , one of the four states of Federated States of Micronesia.

Although Chuuk is an overwhelmingly Christian society, traditional beliefs in spirit possession by the dead still exist, usually held by women, and "events" are usually brought on by family conflicts. The supposed spirits, speaking through the women, typically admonish family members to treat each other better. Roman Catholic doctrine states that angels are non-corporeal, spiritual beings [33] with intelligence and will. Spirit possession appears in Islamic theology and tradition. Jinn are said to be creatures with free will , made from smokeless fire by God Arabic: Allah with the ability to possess humans.

According to Morrocan belief, a jinn-possessed may acquire supernatural powers. Other jinn may possess humans with no harmfull intents, but because they fell in love with an individual. In this case, it is tried to appease the jinn. At an intented possession, the covenant with the jinn must be renewed. One verse in the Quran describes that on judgment day, the behavior of those who earn high interest on loans "as if they were possessed or controlled by a satan". Exorcism and removal of jinn from possessed people is done by a religious person.

Although forbidden in the Hebrew Bible , magic was widely practiced in the late Second Temple Period and well documented in the period following the destruction of the Temple into the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries C. The Baal Shem could expel the harmful dybbuk through exorcism. Wiccans believe in voluntary possession by the Goddess , connected with the sacred ceremony of Drawing Down the Moon.

The high priestess solicits the Goddess to possess her and speak through her. Lewis noted that women are more likely to be involved in spirit possession cults than men are, and postulated that such cults act as a means of compensation for their exclusion from other spheres within their respective cultures. Kehoe and Dody H. Giletti argued that the reason that women are more commonly seen in Afro-Eurasian spirit possession cults is because of deficiencies in thiamine , tryptophan - niacin , calcium , and vitamin D. They argued that a combination of poverty and food taboos cause this problem, and that it is exacerbated by the strains of pregnancy and lactation.

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They postulated that the involuntary symptoms of these deficiencies affecting their nervous systems have been institutionalized as spirit possession. People alleged to be possessed by spirits sometimes exhibit symptoms similar to those associated with mental illnesses such as psychosis , hysteria , mania , Tourette's syndrome , epilepsy , schizophrenia , or dissociative identity disorder , [47] [48] [49] including involuntary, uncensored behavior, and an extra-human, extra-social aspect to the individual's actions.

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