enough, all the others have to do with their bodies: “it may be seen in their countenance,” “a certain wildness … in their general look,” “it strangely loosens their tongues,” “throws them … into quakings and tremblings,” they are “really beside themselves, acting … by the blind impetus of a wild fancy.” It is precisely the feeling that one’s body has been entered by some “other” that Chauncy wishes to warn against.3 Chauncy saw that such people preferred bodily action rather than talk: And the ceremonies