The Possession (2012), yet another in a recent deluge of films about demonic possession and exorcism supposedly based on real cases, opened this Labor Day weekend. (I have not seen the movie, so this ...

“Anything you do needs to speak to the people of today,” Igor Golyak, the artistic director at the Arlekin Players Theatre company in Needham, Mass., told me. “I don’t know how to do a play without ...

In medieval Jewish folklore, the dybbuk was a transmigrating spirit or soul capable of causing physical sickness and psychological suffering by possessing one's body or brain. Those perceived to be ...