Spiritual Possession

Not to be confused with a possession ritual, possession is an ability in which a demon or spirit takes control of a host against its will. Some victims can host several demons and spirits, in some cases up to 40 at a time.
== Symptoms ==
The infiltrates demons and spirits can manifest certain emotions and behaviors such as bestiality, lewdness, murder, frenzy, sexuality, violence and impoliteness. Demonic possession sometimes manifests with many diverse side effects, the most common being radical changes in behavior and personality. Hosting gives the victim scars and modifies the voice. Other side effects can include feeling extremely cold, exuding awful stench, and attacking anything resembling gallows (poles, trees…). Spiritual possession doesn’t seem to have such side effects. Other symptoms include fear or inability to enter places of worship, inability to touch objects of worship, the ability to speak in tongues and disturbing alien thoughts. The possession can take place from a supernatural "slap".
== Curing spiritual possession ==
Demonic possession of children can manifest as hearing voices, levitating objects in the vicinity of the child. When the exorcism is underway the victim can show great strength, and words can appear as markings on the body. Most victims make full recoveries with adapted necromantic psychological treatment.
Entities that can possess other entities often have psychic powers normally of varying strengths. Consciousness is lethal to them. But a person who's scared or otherwise loses control of their higher mental functions can be taken over. Should that person have a pure heart, i.e. a perfectly clean conscience, they will possess the invaders flesh and gain their powers.
If the host is destroyed, the possessor returns to its original immaterial form, though the demon or spirit is usually banished back to its realm.
=== Immune response ===
Main Article: Antipossession organisms‏‎
Possession is single use if used without the hosts consent. Once the possessor leaves the host, the host develops an immune response tailored to the intrusive body. Involontary possession can only happen once, after that the person's immune system reacts and is immune from possession of that particular spirit or demon. So, to persuade the host of further service, the Demon can bring gifts, known as Potentials via a pact.
== Differences between spirit and demonic possession ==
For a spirit, possession is an advanced form of soul flight that allows the immaterial being to possess an individual. 
Demonic possession is the infection of a host organism by Saccharomyces Demonica which gives the demon complete control of the host. In time, demonic possession turns the host into the physical manifestation of the demon. The physical manifestation is a “true” demonic form that can reproduce.
== Effects of possession ==
With some exceptions, the “rules” of possession are identical for Spirits and Demons.
=== Factorial reproduction ===
The offspring of a possessed being is of the race of the host with no impact on the offspring. In the case of demonic possession, if the host has been transformed into the physical manifestation of the possessor, the offspring will be either a monster or a new colony.  
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