1. Anon., A True and Wonderful Relation of a Murther Committed in the Parish of Newington (London, 1681), 1–2.
2. Mary Lindemann, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe. Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010), 1–2.
3. For early considerations on the issue of embodiment from a feminist perspective, see Elizabeth Grosz’s Space, Time, and Perversion: Essays on the Politics of Bodies (New York: Routledge, 1995).
4. Margaret Healy, Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 3.
5. Moshe Sluhovsky, “Spirit Possession and Other Alterations of Consciousness in the Christian Western Tradition,” in Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives: History, Culture, and the Humanities, ed. Etzel Cardeña and Michael Winkelman (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2011), 75.