Sheva: Why Possession Made Sense
“Doctor Martynov cites a case when one Pechora woman had two shevas - one had a human appearance, the appearance of a man, and the other was just a “ crow.” When her consciousness was adjusted in accordance with the nature of the first creature, the woman felt like a man, “she dressed up in a man’s suit, put on a hat and went under the windows of those houses where girls gathered, and when she was a ‘crow’, she sat down in the middle of the street in a puddle or in the snow, clapped her hands