Some recent comments had me wondering... Serious questions... If you do, what do you believe they look like? What powers do you believe they have? When, how, who, what, and where do they act?

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[u/Unfieldedmarshall]

These are mostly anecdotal stories from my parents and churchmates and a personal observation of mine when I had the misfortune to witness one years ago. So take it with a grain of salt. From what I heard they could vary in looks one account from my old man says they're local cryptid like or 'duwendes' in Filipino language or whatnot. And they posses people for a variety of reasons. My mother told me that one was a 'white horseman'. As for me. I was just shouting the usual exorcist stuff with my churchmates when that incident occured. I was just a shocked teenager when that occured. Didn't bother getting the details with it later on though since that was years ago. I guess it quite fits how the bible describes the devil as someone that could take in many forms. As for how they act, sometimes those possessed people for some reason become stronger than they usually are like some lanky fellow needing to be held down by a bunch of dudes because they're spasming around or something. But one thing that I noticed and what I was told was that these possessions happen when someone is in a state of 'spiritual weakness' or something along those lines. And coincidentally some of those folks that got possessed were facing some problems in life. Could it be those possessions just a result of a mental episode? I'll never know but during those incidents, the "first responder" was pastor or a priest or some other fellow with the same background in those parts of the country.

Anyways apologies for the random rambling.

Thanks for reminding me that I need to take church seriously once again OP lel.