My sister told me there was a guy in her dorm her first year of college who would “pretend to be possessed every month”
I asked her what made him do it, and she looked very thoughtful and said “I think he just liked having girls take care of him”
That would be fun if he picked being possessed by a different spirit every month. Demons would get boring, I imagine.
"Where's Charlie?"
"Oh, out on the soccer field. He's an English peasant woman from the 14th century, tilling the field for first seed."
"Neat!"
That’s kinda sad and dangerous. So many religious Christians believe that demons actually exist and can possess people. Just the wrong Christian college woman could have set him down a path of being compelled by Christ to do… something. I dunno what but something and who wants Christ to compel them?
When I was a kid, maybe 13, a girl in our group acted out full on possessed one evening. I was v religious and took it super seriously, rang my priest in a panic. He was NOT amused, but told us to pray with her using the words from St Patrick‘s Breastplate - which reads like a MFing spell