There are various beliefs current as to the way in which spirits enter and leave the body.
According to one belief, when a person gets frightened by the apparition of a ghost, the ghost enters his body through one of the organs, and makes him senseless and violent.[82]
According to another belief, a ghost, as stated above, takes an airy form and enters the body through any channel through which air can enter the body. It leaves the body by the same route.[83]
There is also a belief that evil spirits enter the body of a man through any part of the body and under their influence the person possessed dances, jumps, foams or sits idle[84].
There is a further belief that a ghost enters the body through the thumb and gets out by the ears.[85]
According to some, a ghost makes its way into the body through the anus and its exit by the same route.[86]
Others maintain that it enters the body through the nostrils and gets out by the same passage.[87]
Some say that it finds an entrance and outlet through the skull.[88]
There are others who are of opinion that the immaterial form of a ghost can find admission into the body by the right side and egress the same way.[89]
It is said that when the body is unclean, a ghost can enter it through any of the organs.[90]