Possession

Passenger, a specialised form of Spirit Possession.

Possession is the ability of witches, passengers, spirits,ghosts, and oni to insert one's spirit into another being's form and take control of their body and mind. This power can be used to grant the possessor the motor functions, senses and supernatural abilities, if any, of the host body and is commonly achieved through magical means; however, oni can achieve this through mere touch.

Possession is different from Mind Compulsion and mind control, in that the being's spirit or life essence has to metaphysically enter the body of another being in order to control the body from within.

Notable Examples

Emily Bennett

Emily possessing Bonnie.

In History Repeating, the spirit of the long-deceased witch Emily Bennett possessed the body of her descendant, Bonnie Bennett while she was performing a séance with Elena Gilbert and Caroline Forbes with the intention of using Bonnie's body and magic to destroy the Bennett Talisman before Damon Salvatore could find it and use it to release the tomb vampires.

Emily later possessed Bonnie again in As I Lay Dying, when Stefan and Bonnie called upon the spirits to beg them for a cure for Damon's werewolf bite. She insisted that it was Damon's time to die, and refused to give them any answers about the cure. When she painfully exited Bonnie's body, angry that Bonnie continued to abuse the spirits' power, Bonnie managed to hear the spirits say that Klaus had the cure, which was ultimately revealed to be in his blood. 

Niklaus Mikaelson

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Klaus possessing Alaric

Klaus began possessing Alaric Saltzman's body for a short time at the end of Know Thy Enemy, as a way to get close to Elena Gilbert. Once he learned that Bonnie had regained her powers, he decided to kill Bonnie; however, he struggled with a way to go about it, as he knew she had just performed the spell to connect her to the large source of magic at the Witch Burial Ground, and would thus be extremely powerful. Klaus incorrectly assumed that Bonnie wouldn't be willing to hurt or kill Alaric, but Bonnie continued to attack him knowing that Alaric would have wanted her to make him suffer. Unbeknownst to Klaus, Bonnie already had a plan and faked her own death in order to lull Klaus into a false sense of security. Shortly afterwards, Klaus left Alaric's body to be put back into his own in Klaus, because he claimed he was too vulnerable in Alaric's human body.

In The Departed, Klaus was revealed to be possessing Tyler Lockwood's body, as a result of Bonnie's body-swap spell. Bonnie knew that Alaric, who had just been turned into an Enhanced Original Vampire, would want to kill Klaus, so she cast the spell to put Klaus in Tyler's body in order to ensure that all of her loved ones who were sired from his bloodline, such as her mother, Tyler, Caroline, Stefan, and Damon, would remain safe even if Klaus' body was destroyed.

Esther Mikaelson

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Esther possessing Rebekah

In Heart of Darkness, Esther lied to Rebekah and told her that she was dying because the Bennett bloodline, which she had been drawing on for power, was broken by Abby's death and subsequent transition into a vampire. Esther began to shake, as if she were dying, and she grabbed Rebekah's hands before falling to the floor. Later, Esther revealed to Alaric's alter personality that she had actually jumped into Rebekah's body, and needed his help to kill the her children once and for all. She stayed in Rebekah's body until the next episode, where she returns to her own in order to perform the spell that turned Alaric into an Enhanced Original.

In From a Cradle to a Grave, it was insinuated that Esther has taken possession of Cassie, who was a Harvest girl and who was also the last of the four girls to be resurrected due to Genevieve's death. This was confirmed in Rebirth, as well as the fact that she had brought her sons Finn and Kol back to the world of the living as well, who were possessing two witches named Vincent Griffith and Kaleb Westphall, respectively. In Every Mother's Son, Esther vacated Cassie's body in favor of possessing another very powerful witch named Lenore, who was an ally of Marcel and who had helped Elijah, Klaus and Hayley by performing a soul-branding spell on Esther so they could keep track of the bodies she was possessing.

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Céleste Dubois in the body of young New Orleans Witch Sabine Laurent

Céleste Dubois

In Crescent City, Céleste Dubois was revealed to have used a spell to possess numerous female French Quarter witches over the centuries to achieve a form of immortality after her physical body was killed in 1824 in a witch massacre orchestrated by Niklaus Mikaelson. Every time she got tired of the body she inhabited, or the body was no longer useful to her plans, she would jump from the bridge in the Mississippi River at the very place where she first kissed her former love, Elijah Mikaelson, killing her host body and allowing her spirit to jump into a new one. This cycle continued for almost three hundred years until she was ultimately bound to her original body by Monique Deveraux. Once she had returned to her original body, she was killed by Elijah in retribution for tormenting his family. 

Gregor

Gregor was a Traveler who was seen to possess Matt Donovan's body in I Know What You Did Last Summer by using a Passenger spell commonly used by the Travelers. He continued to possess Matt's body until Dead Man on Campus, when Katherine killed him using Gregor's knife. However, the Passenger spell he used only allowed him temporary control over Matt's body, as opposed to the full control afforded to regular witches who used a body-swap or possession spell or Passengers who had sacrificed their own bodies to achieve full control with Traveler magic. 

Katherine Pierce

After Nadia, Katherine's daughter, learned that Katherine was dying of old age after being cured of her vampirism, she offered to allow Katherine to take advantage of her Traveler heritage and use the Passenger spell to possess her own body. Katherine refused at first, both because she had always been told by her father that Traveler Magic was the devil's magic, and because she didn't want to take her daughter's life in order to extend her own. However, in 500 Years of Solitude, after she had temporarily died and realized she didn't want to die just yet, she ultimately performed the Passenger spell on an unsuspecting Elena Gilbert, who was both her doppelgänger and a vampire, much to Katherine's delight. Unfortunately for Katherine, Elena's strength of will resulted in Katherine frequently losing control of her body. This led Katherine and Nadia to seek out a Traveler, Mia, who made the possession permanent in The Devil Inside. While Katherine was able to successfully possess Elena's body without suspicion for quite a while, Stefan and Caroline eventually figured out that Elena was being possessed by Katherine in No Exit, and Stefan subsequently killed Katherine's spirit for good by stabbing her with the Traveler knife in Gone Girl.

Julian

Julian was a Traveler who performed the Passenger spell on an unsuspecting Tyler Lockwood in Resident Evil, after Tyler had stabbed Sheriff Forbes with Gregor's knife to expel the Passenger inside her. Julian later remarked how much he enjoyed how powerful Tyler's body was as a hybrid, but Markos, the Travelers' leader, reminded him not to get used to it, since their plan involved them all returning to their original bodies after the Traveler's Curse was broken. In Man on Fire, Tyler managed to temporarily gain control over his body at several different points in the day, which allowed him to learn important information about what the Travelers were planning. Markos used Tyler's blood to turn Sloan into a vampire as part of an experiment to test the abilities of Stefan and Elena's mixed doppelgänger blood. Once Sloan awakened in transition, she was fed the doppelgänger blood, which removed the vampire magic from and returned her to her mortal form, before she reverted back to the state in which she was killed by Markos to become a vampire—dead with a slit throat. This revealed that the doppelgänger blood removed witch magic, including the spells used to create vampires, to trigger werewolf curses, to create the Other Side, and even to enchant daylight rings.

The next morning, in What Lies Beneath, Tyler woke up at the Traveler's camp, once again temporarily in control of his body, and pretended to be Julian around Julian's wife, Maria, as to not arouse suspicion. Just as she realized that Tyler had regained control, he shifted into his wolf form, which prevented Maria from being able to command Julian forth. This allowed Tyler to escape and return to the Salvatore Boarding House to inform the gang about the Traveler's plans. While the rest of the gang left for Caroline's dad's cabin to hide the doppelgängers, Tyler stayed behind with Jeremy and Matt, who reluctantly chained Tyler up (at Tyler's insistence) in order to torture Julian into giving them answers. Matt, having remembered how to summon a Passenger from hanging out with Nadia, was able to call Julian forth. At the camp, Markos was so angry at Maria for allowing Julian/Tyler get away that he forced her to perform the spell to make Julian's possession permanent, which involved burning his original body.

In Promised Land Julian, knowing that Markos was essentially sentencing him to death, since he was now permanently possessing a hybrid whose vampirism would be stripped away by the spell, reluctantly helped Damon in his plan to thwart Markos' plan. Maria also joined the gang against Markos and the rest of the Travelers, in support of Julian, and helped the doppelgängers escape from Markos after being nearly bled dry, which ultimately led to her death at Liv and Luke's hands. When Julian learned that Maria had died protecting the doppelgängers, he became so enraged that he killed Stefan by ripping his heart out. However, before Julian could get away, he was captured by Markos again. In Home, Julian was used to demonstrate to Liz Forbes what happens to vampires (such as her daughter) who enter Mystic Falls, Virginia, which, thanks to the Travelers' spell, had been completely stripped of all Spirit Magic. He pushed Julian into the city limits, which resulted in Tyler's body first losing his vampirism, before then losing the magic that triggered his werewolf curse, leaving him as an untriggered werewolf for a brief moment before he ultimately died with a broken neck, the same way that he died when Klaus had turned him into a hybrid. However, Julian and Tyler's death ultimately resulted in Tyler's spirit being freed from the Passenger, and Tyler was able to go to the Other Side, where he was resurrected shortly afterward by Liv Parker and Bonnie.

Finn Mikaelson

In From a Cradle to a Grave, Esther placed Finn in the body of Vincent Griffith. In The Devil is Damned, he was killed by Elijah for trying to capture and kill Klaus' daughter Hope. Freya then resurrected him (and, by proxy, Vincent) in I Love You, Goodbye, and sealed his spirit in her talisman in They All Asked For You.

Kol Mikaelson

Esther placed Kol in the body of Kaleb Westphall in From a Cradle to a Grave, but this was not revealed until Rebirth. In Sanctuary, Finn hexed Kol, leaving him trapped in Kaleb's body with only a few days left to live. Though he and his loved ones tried their best to find a way to stop the hex, both Kol and Kaleb ultimately died in I Love You, Goodbye.

Rebekah Mikaelson

Esther wanted to place Rebekah in Cami's body in The Map of Moments. However, Kol redirected the spell and placed Rebekah into Eva Sinclair's body. Eva began to briefly take back control of her body in They All Asked For You and regained full control of her body in Exquisite Corpse. In the same episode, Rebekah destroyed Eva's consciousness and regained control of her body. In Fire with Fire, Rebekah killed Eva's body in an attempt to return to her original body, which ultimately succeeded. At the end of Ashes to Ashes, Freya revealed she had healed Eva's body and offered to place Rebekah's spirit back in this body once again, allowing her the chance to be both a human and a witch. She accepted Freya's offer and returned to Eva's body before vowing to find a way to bring back her brother Kol.

Dahlia

Dahlia was able to use Kenning to invade other peoples' minds like Jackson Kenner in Night Has A Thousand Eyes. She would later used the same spell on the reanimated body of Josephine LaRue in When the Levee Breaks.

Victims of Possession

Victim	Description	Status
Bonnie Bennett	Bonnie Bennett, an untrained witch, was subject to possession by her ancestor, Emily Bennett.	Alive (Resurrected)
Alaric Saltzman	Alaric Saltzman, as a human for forcefully kidnapped and possessed by Niklaus Mikaelson by Greta Martin. Later, the possession would be reversed by Greta and Maddox.	Alive (Resurrected)
Rebekah Mikaelson	Rebekah Mikaelson, an Original vampire, was subtly possessed by her mother, Esther Mikaelson. The possession was reversed by her magic and help from Alaric.	Undead
Tyler Lockwood	Tyler Lockwood, a werewolf-vampire hybrid was possessed by Niklaus Mikaelson with Bonnie's help after the three of them made a deal to save Klaus' sireline. Later, he was possessed by the Traveler witch, Julian. The possession ended with his death due to the Traveler's anti-magic spell.	Deceased (Killed by Damon Salvatore)
Philomena Isabella Joffrey Clara Summerlin Brynne Deveraux Annie La Fleur Sabine Laurent	Over the course of 200 years, the witch Celeste Dubois possessed a number of witches in her attempt to exact revenge on the Mikaelson family. Many of the witches she possessed, she would kill after a few years of inhabiting their bodies.	All Deceased (Killed by Celeste Dubois)
Matt Donovan	Matt, as a human, was possessed by the Traveler witch, Gregor through the Passenger spell. Gregor was killed by use of the Traveler Knife and Matt was freed.	Alive (Resurrected)
Elena Gilbert	Elena, as a vampire, was possessed by the Traveler witch, Katerina Petrova, after she was taught the Passenger spell by her daughter, Nadia.	Alive (Resurrected)
Elizabeth Forbes	Elizabeth Forbes, a human, was possessed by an unnamed Traveler witch. The witch was killed by use of the Traveler Knife and Liz was freed.	Deceased (Died of cancer)
Countless Others	Dozens of humans were possessed by Travelers over time by use of the Passenger spell.	Deceased (Died as sacrifices with the Travelers)
Cassie	Cassie, a Harvest witch, was possessed by Esther Mikaelson upon Cassie's resurrection through the Harvest. Esther willingly left Cassie's body to possess the witch Lenore.	Deceased (Killed by Freya Mikaelson)
Lenore	Lenore, a witch-turned-vampire, was possessed by Esther Mikaelson. During her attempt to force Rebekah to possess Cami, she was killed with Rebekah's blood and woke up in transition. Esther completed Lenore's transition into a vampire to avoid dying, but became trapped in her vampiric body until Freya killed her.	Deceased (Killed by Freya Mikaelson)
Kaleb Westphall	Kaleb Westphall, a witch, was taken by Esther Mikaelson and prepared his body to be possessed by Kol. After a confrontation with Finn, his body was cursed to prevent him from jumping into another body and to die a slow, painful death.	Deceased (Killed by Finn Mikaelson)
Vincent Griffith	Vincent Griffith, a witch, was taken by Esther Mikaelson and his body was prepared to be possessed by her son, Finn. Finn's spirit was removed by Freya and briefly stored in her pendent.	Alive (Resurrected)
Eva Sinclair	Eva, a witch, was taken by Kol Mikaelson and her body was prepared to be possessed by Rebekah. During Esther's attempt to force Rebekah to possess Cami, Kol and Davina intervened and altered the spell so that Rebekah's spirit would possess Eva. However, Eva took back control of her body until Eva was killed by Rebekah while inside her mind. Eva's body was healed by Freya and performed a spell that allowed Rebekah to possess her corpse. The possession continued until she was killed by Aya and her spirit returned to her Original vampire body.	Deceased (Killed by Rebekah Mikaelson. Body destroyed by Aya.)
Josette Laughlin	Josette, a powerless witch, was possessed post-mortem by Florence by Bonnie's ill-guided attempt at necromancy at Alaric's request. Following her death at the hands of her brother, Kai, Alaric kept her body preserved in the morgue in the hopes that she could be resurrected by the Phoenix Stone. With a vampire soul possessing her witch body, it began to fail without proper preparation, until ultimately Florence died.	Deceased (Killed by Malachai Parker. Body started failing upon possession)
Oscar	Oscar, a siphoner witch-vampire hybrid, was possessed post-mortem by an unnamed Phoenix Stone vampire. Oscar was killed by Valerie and learning that the Phoenix Stone doesn't resurrect people, Oscar's body and the vampire inside was killed by Enzo.	Deceased (Killed by Valerie Tulle. Body destroyed by Lorenzo.)
Marty Hammond	Marty, a human, died in a car crash and his body was the first random corpse Stefan's soul found and latched on to. Marty's body was saved by paramedics that arrived on scene. Valerie performed a soul-swap spell to return Stefan to his body and transfer Ambrose into Marty's. Eventually, he and all the other Phoenix stone vampires are killed by the Armory.	Deceased (Fatal drunk driving car crash)
Stefan Salvatore	Stefan, as a vampire, was possessed by Ambrose as his body was the first corpse that Ambrose latched on to after the destruction of the Phoenix stone. He was later swapped into Marty Hammond's body by Valerie.	Deceased (Burned by Hellfire)
Lewis	Lewis, a vampire, was the first random corpse that Beau latched on to and possessed after the Phoenix Stone was destroyed. Lewis' spirit seemed suppressed with the invasion of Beau's spirit, but they were both killed by Damon.	Deceased (Killed by Damon Salvatore.)
Various Corpses	A number of vampires, such as Wyatt and Ashlynn, were released from the Phoenix Stone and latched on to and possessed the first corpse they found; vampire, human, it didn't matter. Wyatt and Ashlynn were two vampires that	Deceased (Killed by Rayna Cruz. Bodies destroyed by the Mystic Falls Gang and the Armory.)
Sofya Voronova	Sofya, a vampire, was taken possession of by the Hollow. She was forced from Sofya's body with a stainless steel blade laced with Hayley's blood.	Undead
Hope Mikaelson	Hope, a tribrid was forcefully possessed by the Hollow. After combining Hope's blood with her own with a spell, her resurrected body was killed and slowly overwhelmed Hope until her spirit was taken out and divided into four Mikaelsons by Vincent.	Undead

Other Forms

Victim	Description	Status
Countless Humans	Several dozen humans were "possessed" by Dahlia through her Kenning spell.	Alive/Deceased (Some were released from Dahlia's control, while other were killed by Niklaus and Mikael)
Jackson Kenner	Jackson, an Evolved werewolf was "possessed" by Dahlia through her Kenning spell to spy on and scare Freya. She voluntarily released him from her control.	Deceased (Killed by Tristan de Martel)
Josephine LaRue	Josephine, a witch, was killed by Dahlia and her corpse was reanimed and "possessed" by her Kenning spell. Using Josephine's body, she visited the Mikaelsons to send a message to them that she was coming to take what was owed to her.	Deceased (Killed by Dahlia. Body destroyed by Niklaus Mikaelson.)
Simulandon	Simulandon was a golem created by Josie Saltzman under the direction of Ryan Clarke to bind the mind, body, and spirit of "Simulandon" with a spell using black magic. After being tricked into reforging it into a dark object, Ryan intended to use it to transfer his consciousness into Hope's body. However, Simulation saved Hope and forced Ryan's conscious into him.	Deceased (Decapitated by the Necromancer)
Japanese Woman Japanese Child	Presumably a human, the unnamed Japanese women was possessed by an Oni. The woman was freed from its control by the Oni itself, as if could take possession of other victims naturally through physical contact, opting to take a child to prevent its destruction. The child was spared as Kurutta decided to take the Oni within himself.	Deceased (Circa 1300s)
Kurutta	Kurutta, a human, was possessed of by the 'Oni, however, he could fight for control given his "broken mind". After he was freed from Malivore, he was inadvertently touched and the Oni found a new body.	Deceased (Killed by the oni while possessing Landon)
Good Samaritan	The Good Samaritan was a human who was possessed by the Oni. The Oni left his body and found a new host within Dennis	Alive
Dennis	Dennis, a human, was briefly possessed by the Oni, until he left his body in lieu of taking Rafael as a host.	Alive
Rafael Waithe	Rafael, a werewolf, was briefly possessed by the Oni, until he left his body in lieu of taking Landon as a host.	Alive (Resurrected)
Landon Kirby	Landon, a phoenix, was briefly possessed by the Oni, until Lizzie killed Landon, inadvertently touching him in the process, becoming the Oni's new host. Landon is also Malivore's perfect vessel and, as such, can be "possessed", per se, by Malivore. Unlike most forms of possession, Malivore, in physical form, physically takes control of Landon as opposed of a spirit being subjected to a host body.	Deceased (killed by Hope Mikaelson)
Lizzie Saltzman	Lizzie, a siphoner witch, was was briefly possessed by the Oni, until Josie forced the Oni from her body with a purge spell and send back to Malivore. Given Lizzie's "broken mind", she could resist the Oni like Kurutta.	Alive (Resurrected)
Kaelan	Kaelan, a human, died of a broken heart. Upon her death, a banshee, a demon drawn to inconsolable grief, possessed her. She was eventually consumed by Malivore and later released to do his bidding with the promise of freedom. However, Kaelan's spirit persisted and had some limited control against the banshee, particularly when she learned her family's legacy continued with her son. At peace, the banshee was forced from her body and Kaelan died.	Deceased (Inconsolable grief, Circa 1014 / Found Peace, 2029)
Ryan Clarke	Ryan, a human, was possessed by a dybbuk after Malivore learned that Hope intended to perform the powerful transfusion ritual on him, he offered up an alternative. Hope would later perform the transfusion ritual on Ryan again to remove the parasitic spirit.	Alive (Resurrected)
Hope Mikaelson	Hope was tricked by Aurora into using a cloaked Trident, created by Agatha St. Clair, in order to switch bodies. Hope now resides in her ancient vampiric body.	Undead
Aurora de Martel	Aurora tricked Hope into using a cloaked Trident, created by Agatha St. Clair, in order to take over Hope's body to become the tribrid.	Deceased

Methodology

• When a vampire possesses someone, they retain their powers of compulsion, as evidenced by Klaus' ability to compel students and Katherine while he was in Alaric's human body.
• When a vampire is possessing someone, it allows them to bypass invitation barriers, as seen when Klaus, the Original Hybrid, and who was possessing Alaric, a human, was able to enter the Salvatore house without an invitation from Elena.
• When a vampire is possessed, the person possessing them can enter through magical vampire-proof barriers, as seen with Esther, when she was able to enter through the Lockwood Cave, despite being in an Original vampire's body.
• When a vampire possesses a witch, they are able to perform magic.
• It is unknown if a human can perform body possession with help from a witch, since they do not have a supernatural hold.
• When a witch possesses a vampire or hybrid, they gain their abilities, but lose their own ability to perform magic.
  • The Hollow appears to be an exception to this, although it is unclear how she achieved this.
• Turning the host body into a vampire does not turn the spirit of the possessor.
• Possession spells usually require a preparation spell beforehand on the host body.
• The death of the host body is usually the only way to expel a spirit from possession.
  • Esther is the only witch so far to have shown that it is possible to leave the host body unharmed though it was a single instance.
• Magic follows a witch into their host body as evidence by Céleste.
• Travelers who passenger into humans retain their ability to perform magic.
  • It is unclear if the same applies to witches although Kol did not reject the idea when it was thought that Esther intended to jump into Camille's body.
  • Both Dahlia and The Hollow have proven this to be possible.
• Possessed people are immune to mental intrusions such as Telepathy and Compulsion even from the likes of Silas due to having two minds in one body.
  • Although this may not be the case for Rebekah Mikaelson as Eva Sinclair's mind was destroyed and Rebekah was the only spirit in her body.
• Spirits can possess inanimate objects like talismans as evidence by Finn.
• The spirits of host bodies can sometimes reawaken and take back control though if powerful enough, some can not simply do so if not powerful enough.
• Typically when someone possesses another, the possessor would exhibit traits and mannerisms similar to the host, seemingly by instinct. This makes it all the more difficult for them to be discerned.
• Supernatural Hunters, having mental invulnerability, are naturally immune to possession as stated by Olivia Parker.
  • This suggests that possession has a mental aspect to it.
  • At least with oni, they have a harder time possession people with a "broken mind," such as Kurutta and Lizzie Saltzman, and the hosts could remember what happened while possessed and had some partial control of their faculties.

Types of Possession

There appears to be several different forms of possession:

1. Spirit possession, the more common form which involves a witch casting a spell to allow a spirit to "jump" into another's body, which gives them full control of their new host body.
2. Passenger spells, which are performed exclusively by the Travelers using Traveler Magic, and which, on its own, only gives the Passenger temporary control over their host body; in this case, the Passenger is called into control of their vessel by another person who says a set of "code words" to summon them. However, a spell does exist that gives Passengers permanent control of their host bodies, but it involves a Traveler casting a spell over the Passenger's own body, destroying it in the process and making it impossible to return to it. If this spell is cast, the only way to expel the Passenger from the vessel is to stab them with a Traveler Knife.
3. Kenning, which has only been used so far by the ancient and powerful witch Dahlia. Kenning is a type of spell that allows a witch to temporarily possess the mind of one or multiple people, even from a distance, which allows the witch to see through their eyes to gain information and even control them to pass on messages.

Trivia

• According to Josephine LaRue in They All Asked For You, witches despise possession when it is used against other witches.
• It has been used so far in both The Vampire Diaries and The Originals by: Emily Bennett, Niklaus Mikaelson, Esther, Gregor, Katherine Pierce, Julian, Céleste Dubois, Finn Mikaelson, Kol Mikaelson and Rebekah Mikaelson, along with many other unnamed Travelers.
• There are two known spells that specializes in spirit possession: Kenning and Passenger spells.
• Emily is the first witch in the series to cast a possession spell.
• Maddox is the first witch in the series to perform a possession spell on someone else's soul.
• Season Six of The Vampire Diaries is the only season of which a witch does not perform a possession spell.
• It is unknown why Florence could not be kept in by Jo's body as vampires have been shown to possess humans as well as mortal witches before (Klaus possessing Alaric, Esther intending Rebekah to possess Camille etc.). Although a few theories could be made:
  • Josette's vessel had not been cast with a preparation spell beforehand.
  • Josette was already dead while instances of such had always been with a live human.
  • Josette's body had been dead for a long time and was not perfectly preserved unlike Esther's with a spell
  • Such a possession can only be possible with an Original Vampire.
  • Florence was not born a witch unlike the Mikaelson Siblings.

Appearances

The Vampire Diaries

Season One History Repeating (Emily/Bonnie)

Season Two Know Thy Enemy(Klaus/Alaric) The Last Dance (Klaus/Alaric) Klaus (Klaus/Alaric) As I Lay Dying (Emily/Bonnie)

Season Three Heart of Darkness (Esther/Rebekah) Do Not Go Gentle (Esther/Rebekah) The Departed (Klaus/Tyler)

Season Four Growing Pains (Klaus/Tyler)

Season Five Original Sin (Gregor/Matt) For Whom the Bell Tolls (Gregor/Matt) Dead Man on Campus (Gregor/Matt) 500 Years of Solitude (Katherine/Elena) The Devil Inside (Katherine/Elena) Total Eclipse of the Heart (Katherine/Elena) No Exit (Katherine/Elena) Gone Girl (Katherine/Elena) Resident Evil (Unknow/Liz, Julian/Tyler) Man on Fire (Julian/Tyler) What Lies Beneath (Julian/Tyler) Promised Land (Julian/Tyler, Carl/Pam, Many other Travelers possessing humans) Home (Julian/Tyler)

Season Seven I Carry Your Heart With Me (Unknow/Oscar's body, Florence/Jo's body) Live Through This (Unknow/Oscar's body, Florence/Jo's body) Best Served Cold (Florence/Jo's body) I Went to the Woods (Stefan/Marty's body, Ambrose/Stefan) One Way or Another (Stefan/Marty's body, Ambrose/Stefan) Somebody That I Used to Know (Beau/Lewis' body, Many other vampires possessing dead bodies)

The Originals

Season One Always and Forever (Céleste/Sabine) Tangled Up In Blue (Céleste/Sabine) Fruit of the Poisoned Tree (Céleste/Sabine) Bloodletting (Célest/Sabine) The Casket Girls (Céleste/Sabine) Après Moi, Le Déluge (Céleste/Sabine) Dance Back from the Grave (Céleste/Sabine & Clara) Crescent City (Céleste/Sabine) Long Way Back From Hell (Céleste/Sabine & Clara) Le Grand Guignol (Céleste/Sabine) Farewell to Storyville (Céleste/Sabine) Moon Over Bourbon Street (Céleste/Sabine) From a Cradle to a Grave (Esther/Cassie, Finn/Vincent)

Season Two Rebirth (Esther/Cassie, Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb) Alive and Kicking (Esther/Cassie, Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb) Every Mother's Son (Esther/Cassie & Lenore, Fin/Vincent) Live and Let Die (Esther/Lenore, Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb) Red Door (Esther/Lenore, Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb) Wheel Inside the Wheel (Esther/Lenore, Finn/Vincent) Chasing the Devil's Tail (Etsther/Lenore, Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb) The Brothers That Care Forgot (Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb) The Map of Moments (Esther/Lenore, Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb, Rebekah/Eva) Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire (Esther/Lenore, Finn/Vincent, Kol Kaleb, Rebekah/Eva) Brotherhood of the Damned (Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb) Sanctuary (Kol/Kaleb, Rebekah/Eva) The Devil is Damned (Kol/Kaleb, Rebekah/Eva) I Love You, Goodbye (Finn/Vincent, Kol/Kaleb, Rebekah/Eva) They All Asked For You (Finn/Vincent, Rebekah/Eva) Save My Soul (Rebekah/Eva) Exquisite Corpse (Esther/Lenore, Rebekah/Eva's Body) Night Has A Thousand Eyes (Rebekah/Eva's body, Dahlia/Jackson and other) When the Levee Breaks (Rebekah/Eva's body, Dahlia/Josephine's body) City Beneath The Sea (Rebekah/Eva) Fire with Fire (Rebekah/Eva's body) Ashes to Ashes (Rebekah/Eva's body)

Season Three Beautiful Mistake (Rebekah/Eva's body)

Season Four High Water and a Devil's Daughter (The Hollow/Sofya) A Spirit Here That Won't Be Broken (The Hollow/Hope)

Legacies

Season Two

• Since When Do You Speak Japanese? (Oni/Kurutta, Samaritan, Dennis, Rafael, Landon, Lizzie)