A now-extinct spirit possession cult existed among the Hadimu women of Zanzibar, revering a spirit called kitimiri. This cult was described in an 1869 account by a French missionary. The cult faded by the 1920s and was virtually unknown by the 1960s. [69] Imagine a proper study of the demon hypothesis. It would likely involve randomized controlled trials of exorcisms on patients: real exorcism corresponding to patient belief system, real exorcism not corresponding to belief, fake exorcism corresponding to belief (i.e. subtly ‘defanged’ ritual), fake exorcism not corresponding to belief, and a control group. Witchcraft, healing and vernacular magic in Italy. Manchester University Press. January 2020. ISBN 9781526137975. Nissinen also recorded that music was an essential part to these trance-ceremonies in the Ancient Near-East and so it can be reconstructed it could have been found in Yahwism. [89] Instruments such as the tambourine, harps, lyres, and flutes may have been utilized, as those were common instruments in Ancient Israel. [91] Along with music, incense may have also been used, either as an offering, or to be used as an entheogen, or possibly as both.

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Along with a handful of Vatican-sanctioned exorcists, there are hundreds of self-styled exorcists around the world. After attending 50 exorcisms during research for his book, Michael Cuneo states that he never saw anything supernatural or unexplainable: No levitation or spinning heads or demonic scratch marks suddenly appearing on anyone's faces, but many emotionally troubled people on both sides of the ritual. Further according to Nissinen, the Hebrew Bible, may contain evidence that trance-related practices may have been the origins of the Jewish traditions of prophetic messages. [89]Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference

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O'Connell, M. C. (1982). "Spirit Possession and Role Stress among the Xesibe of Eastern Transkei". Ethnology. 21 (1): 21–37. doi: 10.2307/3773703. JSTOR 3773703. Szombathy, Zoltan (2014). "Exorcism". In Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. Vol.3. doi: 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_26268. ISBN 9789004269637. Kinnard, Jacob (2006). Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practice. Gale Virtual Reference Library: Gale. Santiago, Christopher (Autumn 2021). Costa, Luiz; Ferme, Marianne; Kaur, Raminder; Kipnis, Andrew B. (eds.). "Twilight states: Comparing case studies of hysteria and spirit possession". HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. University of Chicago Press. 11 (2): 635–659. doi: 10.1086/715812. ISSN 2049-1115. Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner who is believed to interact with a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. [116] [117] The goal of this is usually to direct these spirits or spiritual energies into the physical world, for healing or another purpose. [116] New religious movements [ edit ] Wicca [ edit ]Islam, Migration and Jinn: Spiritual Medicine in Muslim Health Management. (2021). Deutschland: Springer International Publishing. p. 56 Griffel, Frank (2005). Islam and rationality: the impact of al-Ghazālī: papers collected on his 900th anniversary. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. p.103. ISBN 978-9-004-29095-2. The 1987 movie examines demonic possession from an unusually scientific perspective, as a group of scientists and students study an ominous cylinder containing an unknown substance. It's revealed that it's an ancient text that describes the physical manifestation of the Devil himself. The movie cleverly meshes supernatural horror with science, and though it isn't exactly scientifically accurate, few demon-possession movies have ever approached the subgenre from a scientific standpoint.