The devotees are in fact undergoing what they believe to be a form of possession by the animal spirits inculcated into their tattoos.

实际上，狂热者们在展示他们认为被纹身上描画的动物的灵魂“附身”的样子。

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The financial markets crisis could not have been prevented because Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, for 18 long years the power center in the nation for monetary policy, did not believe in reining in the animal spirits on Wall Street.

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