All seem possessed by the spirit they're trying to channel.

He rose and went out of the house, possessed by the evil spirit.

What evil spirit had possessed him to attack that nobody of a girl?

I should have killed him and gone on about my business, but suddenly a spirit of bravado possessed me.

It is apparently assumed that the spirit already possesses the means of working on matter.

Eve is possessed by the spirit of a dead gypsy.

Annie never quite knew what fearless spirit possessed her after that moment.

My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence.

If the host body is destroyed, then Death's spirit can escape and possess living humans.

The soul of a dead person takes over a living body; a spirit possessing a human being; it has to be persuaded to let go.