Margaret Lyngdoh’s presentation
Personally, I found Margaret Lyngdoh’s presentation insightful
and enlightening! When I first heard that we were going to be listening to a
presentation from a professor from India, I was so excited, and then I discovered
it was about possession, and I was even more curious since the topic is so
different and out-there. When Margaret Lyngdoh started talking about the
different types of possession—from snake to tiger—it made me question if the people
really believed they turned into the animal, or if it was just a spiritual,
mindful thing where they take on the aspects of the animal. However, this whole
possession, doing weird things reminded me a lot about all of the evil
characters in fairy tales—including all of the evil queens such as in “Snow White”
and the Sea Witch in the “Little Mermaid” and the witch in “Hansel and Gretel.”
I believe that deep down, people are good, and that it is these difficult and
troubling experiences that shape a person and turn them into what they are now.
In saying this, I believe that these troubling experiences are what ‘possess’
them to act a certain way and do certain things. From the information I got from
Lyngdoh’s presentation, I don’t believe those type of Indian possessions were
evil per-say (because she said they prepare for really bad tropical storms like
cyclones) but they are controlled by another source/being that makes them do
certain things, just like evil characters in fairy tales.
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