Anecdotal cases of presumed "possession" and "hauntings" illustrate a number of psychosocial causal variables for these phenomena. Several psychophysical parameters such as trajectories, the distance from suspected "agent" to the target, attenuated energy patterns, symbolic contents, and directedness to the target person are indicated in a potential model for interpretation of such events.
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