Meanings of diabolic possession in anglès

For hundreds of years this idea of diabolic possession was steadily developed.

The Captain was not one of those whom Terrence O'Connor credited with diabolic possession.

Before the laws governing mental health were known, insanity was generally thought to be diabolic possession.

Naturally, then, throughout the latter half of the seventeenth century we find scattered cases of diabolic possession.

In Austria, the government set Dr. Antonio Haen at making careful researches into the causes of diabolic possession.

In the year 1684 Increase Mather published his book, Remarkable Providences, laying stress upon diabolic possession and witchcraft.

The reformed Church in all its branches fully accepted the doctrines of witchcraft and diabolic possession, and developed them still further.

And this discovery of Rusakov's was so unlikely and strange that the inspector from the Consistorial Court of Discipline suspected Rusakov of diabolic possession.