When a possessed farm boy taunts Lange's nun, he sneers, drawing the words out like Snidely Whiplash, "It drives you cra-a-azy.
My three children are 12, 10 and seven, and the eldest comes home from school and snacks like a boy possessed, targeting things that come in wrappers (specifically biscuits) before he glances with disdain at, for example, fruit.
Set in postwar Coventry, at the time when the city was being hurriedly and carelessly rebuilt after its destruction by the Luftwaffe in 1940, it is the story of a young boy, possessed of special supernatural powers, who was possibly conceived on the night of the raid.
On the second night we talked about the boy possessed with a spirit that caused him to hurt himself, and I related that story to how people today often hurt themselves through addiction.
However, for many of our children the "boy possessed with a spirit" is really a drug addicted parent and the burden and responsibility of finding healing and restoration is taken on by the child.
Truly violent anime can maybe harsh your mellow, but Devilman Crybaby legendarily mind-bending director Masaaki Yuasa's bizarre story of a teenage boy possessed by a demon that makes him look like he won puberty is the exception.
If you had a creepy, wound-covered, alien-possessed boy in your house, you'd call an expert too.
Two boys possessed by the urge to noodle?
The local boys possessed a certain je ne sais quoi, which, tell the truth, she was not très crazy about, such as: actually named their own nuts.
Yet in other ways the book suggests that the boy already possessed certain qualities that foreshadowed how he would have turned out -- with or without the Holocaust detour.
