Possessed may refer to:
Possession
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Possession (disambiguation)
Possession may refer to:
Law
*Dependent territory, an area of land over which another country exercises sovereignty, but which does not have the full right of participation in that country's governance
* Drug possession, a crime
*Ownership
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, having some degree of control over something else
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Spirit possession
Spirit Possession is an altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors which are purportedly caused by the control of a human body and its functions by Supernatural#Spirit, spirits, ghosts, demons, angels, or Deity, gods. The concept ...
, whereby gods, demons, animas, or other disincarnate entities may temporarily take control of a human body
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Demonic possession
Spirit Possession is an altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors which are purportedly caused by the control of a human body and its functions by Supernatural#Spirit, spirits, ghosts, demons, angels, or Deity, gods. The concept ...
, spirit possession by a malevolent entity
Film and television
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''Possessed'' (1931 film), a 1931 drama starring Clark Gable and Joan Crawford
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''Possessed'' (1947 film), a 1947 film noir starring Joan Crawford
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''The Possessed'' (1965 film), a 1965 Italian mystery film
* ''La Endemoniada'' (''The Possessed'') a 1974 Spanish horror film directed by
Amando de Ossorio
Amando de Ossorio (6 April 1918 – 13 January 2001) was one of the foremost Spanish horror film directors during the European horror film surge in the 1970s, known especially for his "Blind Dead" tetralogy.
Biography
De Ossorio directed a shor ...
, a.k.a. ''Demon Witch Child''
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''The Possessed'' (1977 film), a 1977 American horror film directed by Jerry Thorpe
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''Junoon'' (1978 film), aka ''Possessed'', 1978 Indian epic
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''Possessed'' (1983 film), a 1983 Hong Kong horror film
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Possessed II'', a 1984 Hong Kong horror film
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''The Possessed'' (1988 film), a 1988 French film
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''Possessed'' (2000 film), a 2000 TV-movie starring Timothy Dalton
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''Possessed'' (2006 film), a 2006 Malaysian horror film
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''The Possessed'' (2009 film), a 2009 American horror film based on a true story
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''Living Death'' (film), a 2009 South Korean horror film also known as ''Possessed''
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Soul (South Korean TV series)
''Soul'' (; also known as ''Possessed'') is a 2009 South Korean crime horror television drama series, starring Lim Ju-eun and Lee Seo-jin. It is about a high school girl possessed by spirits and the criminal profiler who exploits her powers in ...
, a 2009 South Korean TV series also known as ''Possessed''
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''Possessed'' (TV series), a 2019 South Korean TV series
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''The Possessed'' (2021 film)
Literature
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"The Possessed" (short story), a 1951 short story by Arthur C. Clarke
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''Demons'' (Dostoevsky novel), an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky sometimes also called ''The Possessed''
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''The Possessed'' (play), a 1959 play by Albert Camus, adapted from Dostoyevsky's novel
* ''The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them'' (2010), a book by
Elif Batuman
Elif Batuman (born 1977) is an American author, academic, and journalist. She is the author of three books: a memoir, ''The Possessed'', the novel ''The Idiot,'' which was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and '' Either/Or''. Bat ...
named after Dostoevsky's novel
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''Possessed'' (novel), a 1939 novel by Witold Gombrowicz
Music
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Possessed (band)
Possessed is an American death metal band, originally formed in 1982 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Noted for their fast style of playing and Jeff Becerra's death growl, growled vocals, they are often called the first band in the death metal gen ...
, American death metal band
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''Possessed'' (Gojira album)
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''Possessed'' (Venom album)
* "Possessed", a song by Sasami from ''
Blood on the Silver Screen
''Blood on the Silver Screen'' is the third studio album by the American musician Sasami. A pop record, it follows her 2022 hard rock and industrial metal album '' Squeeze'' and her eponymous 2019 indie rock debut. In 2022, Sasami alternated b ...
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Other uses
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''The Possessed'' (comics), 2003
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Possessed (roller coaster)
Possessed is an Impulse roller coaster, inverted impulse launched roller coaster located at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Manufactured by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel, the roller coaster originally debuted ...
, a Steel Impulse Coaster at Dorney Park formerly referred to as Voodoo
See also
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''Repossessed'' (film), a parody/spoof film from 1991 starring Leslie Nielsen
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Repossession
Repossession, commonly referred to as repo, is a "self-help" type of action in which the party having the right of ownership of a property takes the property in question back from the party having right of possession without invoking court proc ...
, a financial institution taking back property
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The Dispossessed
''The Dispossessed'' (subtitled ''An Ambiguous Utopia'') is a 1974 anarchist utopian science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, one of her seven Hainish Cycle novels. It is one of a small number of books to win all three Hugo, ...
'', a 1974 utopian science fiction novel by
Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin ( ; Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works set in her Hainish universe, and the ''Earthsea'' fantas ...
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