Tales of the Possessed
C. Torrington
9781784284527
192 pages
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Overview
The idea of people possessed by evil spirits against their will is as old as the hills. Often there is thought to be a special way a person has become possessed. It might be the result of a curse cast on them by a sorcerer, or some unfortunate mishap such as stepping over a dead body. Or the demons can have been invited, in a Satanic ritual. More often, at least in recent Christian tradition, there is no initiating moment that can be identified-they just find their way in, like disease. From Pearl Curran, a housewife living in St Louis, Missouri, who soared to fame in the second decade of the 20th century as the amanuensis of 'Patience Worth', a writer who had died in the 17th century, to victims of Dissociative Personality Disorder (thought to have inspired Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), this book examines demonic possession from every angle.
Author Bio
Clytemnestra Torrington was ordained as a vicar in the Church of England, but abandoned the cloth in 1997 to become a full-time writer. She now lives with her cats on the edge of Dartmoor and she is working on a fictional account of the lives of the Christian saints reborn in the 21st century.
