Possessione

Spirit possession - a belief that animas, demons, extraterrestrials, gods, or spirits can take control of a human body. Article “Possessione” in Italian Wikipedia has 26.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.38 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Possessione”, its content was written by 72 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 1517 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 248 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 4681 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #3649 in November 2021
• Global: #6699 in March 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #21723 in July 2009
• 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

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Possessione" in all the time

#	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

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Possessione" in June 2026

#	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

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

Language versions of the article "Possessione" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	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

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

Language versions of the article "Possessione" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	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

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

Language versions of the article "Possessione" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Spirit possession		1 667
2	French (fr) Possession (anthropologie)		515
3	Japanese (ja) 憑依		378
4	Russian (ru) Одержимость		329
5	German (de) Besessenheit		267
6	Italian (it) Possessione		248
7	Arabic (ar) استحواذ روحي		244
8	Chinese (zh) 附身		156
9	Portuguese (pt) Possessão espiritual		111
10	Polish (pl) Opętanie		98

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic استحواذ روحي
de	German Besessenheit
el	Greek Δαιμονοληψία
en	English Spirit possession
es	Spanish Posesión espiritual
fa	Persian تسخیر روح
fi	Finnish Riivaus
fr	French Possession (anthropologie)
he	Hebrew איחוז
hr	Croatian Opsjednuće
hu	Hungarian Megszállottság (vallás)
id	Indonesian Kerasukan
it	Italian Possessione
ja	Japanese 憑依
ko	Korean 빙의
ms	Malay Kerasukan
nl	Dutch Bezetenheid
pl	Polish Opętanie
pt	Portuguese Possessão espiritual
ru	Russian Одержимость
sh	Serbo-Croatian Posednutost
simple	Simple English Spirit possession
tr	Turkish Posesyon
uk	Ukrainian Одержимість
vi	Vietnamese Nhập hồn
zh	Chinese 附身

Best Rank

Italian: #21723 07.2009

Global: #14023 06.2021

Best Rank

Italian: #3649 11.2021

Global: #6699 03.2002

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