Spirit possession

Quality:

Spirit possession - a belief that animas, demons, extraterrestrials, gods, or spirits can take control of a human body. Article “Spirit possession” in English Wikipedia has 86.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 171 references and 42 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Spirit possession” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 10 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Spirit possession”, its content was written by 738 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1517 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1667 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4681 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3928 in December 2019
• Global: #6699 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #8049 in June 2021
• Global: #14023 in June 2021

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Spirit possession		86.2658
2	Hebrew (he) איחוז		58.0975
3	Japanese (ja) 憑依		37.4504
4	German (de) Besessenheit		35.377
5	Hungarian (hu) Megszállottság (vallás)		33.6418
6	Polish (pl) Opętanie		33.3748
7	Russian (ru) Одержимость		29.5992
8	Indonesian (id) Kerasukan		29.3008
9	Malay (ms) Kerasukan		29.0075
10	Ukrainian (uk) Одержимість		28.3762

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spirit possession		8 264 015
2	Russian (ru) Одержимость		1 511 080
3	Japanese (ja) 憑依		1 026 939
4	Polish (pl) Opętanie		829 979
5	German (de) Besessenheit		499 121
6	Italian (it) Possessione		390 492
7	French (fr) Possession (anthropologie)		286 982
8	Chinese (zh) 附身		221 019
9	Spanish (es) Posesión espiritual		106 218
10	Dutch (nl) Bezetenheid		103 265

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Spirit possession		18 396
2	Japanese (ja) 憑依		2 140
3	Russian (ru) Одержимость		2 119
4	Chinese (zh) 附身		883
5	French (fr) Possession (anthropologie)		862
6	Polish (pl) Opętanie		855
7	German (de) Besessenheit		678
8	Italian (it) Possessione		639
9	Spanish (es) Posesión espiritual		302
10	Hebrew (he) איחוז		222

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spirit possession		738
2	German (de) Besessenheit		127
3	Polish (pl) Opętanie		99
4	Russian (ru) Одержимость		97
5	French (fr) Possession (anthropologie)		72
6	Italian (it) Possessione		72
7	Japanese (ja) 憑依		70
8	Chinese (zh) 附身		34
9	Hebrew (he) איחוז		30
10	Portuguese (pt) Possessão espiritual		30

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Spirit possession		4
2	Finnish (fi) Riivaus		1
3	Hungarian (hu) Megszállottság (vallás)		1
4	Indonesian (id) Kerasukan		1
5	Korean (ko) 빙의		1
6	Russian (ru) Одержимость		1
7	Ukrainian (uk) Одержимість		1
8	Arabic (ar) استحواذ روحي		0
9	German (de) Besessenheit		0
10	Greek (el) Δαιμονοληψία		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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