Top Ten Tuesday: Worlds I'd Never Want to Live In

Today is Top Ten Tuesday, a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish!  Every week they post a new top ten list and everyone can join in and share their own picks. If you'd like to take part, hop on over to the blog and sign up with the linky. If you don't have a blog, feel free to post your answers in the comments.

This week's topic is: Worlds I'd Never Want to Live in.

P is for Possession #atozchallenge

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Today I'm continuing with the Blogging from A-Z Challenge hosted by Arlee Bird and his team of awesome bloggers. My theme is: Elements and features of speculative fiction and entertainment. So throughout April I will be blogging about characters, objects and themes that appear in sci-fi, fantasy and dystopian series. Today's post is all about Possession.

Possession is a supernatural happening whereby a person's body is taken over by the soul or spirit of someone else, or by a demon. This renders the person incapable of acting on their own free-will, though they may appear unchanged and the possession may go unnoticed. Many cultures and religions around the world have some sort of concept of demonic possession, but the details vary. Sometimes an exorcism or cleansing ritual is deemed necessary to banish the malevolent demon. However, some forms of spirit possession by humans, animals or gods (particularly in tribal cultures) are seen as beneficial and undertaken voluntarily.

C is for Chimera #atozchallenge

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Today I'm continuing with the Blogging from A-Z Challenge hosted by Arlee Bird and his team of awesome bloggers. My theme is: Elements and features of speculative fiction and entertainment. So throughout April I will be blogging about characters, objects and themes that appear in sci-fi, fantasy and dystopian series.

 Today's post is all about Chimeras. A chimera is a monster from Greek mythology made up of the parts of three different animals-a lion, a serpent and a goat. Nowadays the term has come to describe any mythical animal with parts taken from various animals, or to describe wildly imaginative concepts.