Residents would even pray to some of the edifices to exorcise evil spirits and bring good weather for crops. |
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Shamans or Buddhist monks can be called on to exorcise such ill-intentioned spirits. |
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The Church would neither exorcise the children of the faithful nor subject them to the rite of exsufflation. |
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Practicing charismatic prophecy, many of Montanus's followers were women, who were allowed to teach, heal, and exorcise demons. |
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His troubled spirit was said to have haunted a certain home, and the bottle apparently was an attempt by a priest to exorcise the spirit. |
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And they are having trouble and have had trouble for years, decades, trying to exorcise him from their lives. |
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The tone veers from serious to comic horror at this point and encompasses several botched attempts to exorcise the ghost. |
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The sound generated by the bamboo could both arouse gods to be appeased or exorcise evil spirits. |
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Luckily there were plenty of other sideshows around the convention halls to cheer spirits and exorcise such defeatist sentiments. |
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Or, if I was very unlucky and lived in a remote Scottish hamlet, a lay preacher would have been brought around to my house to exorcise me. |
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I eventually gave up and called a priest to come over and exorcise the demonic spirits. |
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Yet its importance as a metaphor for evil means that the coalition remains desperate to exorcise these demons. |
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Now she has written an autobiographical novel in an attempt to exorcise her trauma. |
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Iverson played with what appeared to be a reckless fury, as if he could only exorcise his demons on the basketball court. |
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He could invoke saints and employ relics, sprinkle holy water and exorcise the devil. |
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Instead of letting us exorcise him, she makes him help out with the housework. |
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There is also a good deal of confusion as to whether it is better to exorcise or exercise one's memories. |
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For me, drawing's uniqueness has something to do with the fundamental activity of actually trying to lay a ghost or exorcise oneself. |
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You might think that the only reason a Labor Party leader might want to visit Terrigal would be to exorcise some lingering political demons. |
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Even before he had buried her, he had begun to try to exorcise the memory of her final bewildered, agonized week. |
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The members of the Irish band hold a prayer meeting to exorcise the demons. |
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But one deeply entrenched demon I would like to exorcise is my tendency to break into a cold sweat when dealing with things financial. |
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Attempts are made in vain to exorcise his spirit, but when the robe of a saint is placed on his shoulders, he achieves spiritual release. |
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That doesn't particularly inspire confidence as the ladies bid to exorcise the painful memories of last year's defeat. |
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The post isn't actually about the TV show, but the analogy sprung to mind and I haven't been able to fully exorcise it. |
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Steinbeck's appreciation of him is partly an obituary, partly an attempt to exorcise his ghost. |
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It was the only time that he had been stopped in his professional career and he is determined to exorcise the memories of that defeat. |
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It took Indian fans and cricketers several years and a few important victories to exorcise this ghost from our minds. |
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You talk about the cathartic power of music, for instance, about violent impulse that you exorcise through music. |
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He should repent and exorcise the institutional bias of his department. |
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One should recall that Marx's writings are contemporaneous with the rise of spiritualism and that they can be viewed as historical materialist attempts to exorcise this craze. |
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Now the feng shui doctor has been called in to exorcise the room. |
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The newspapers have run stories about a girl who was almost trampled to death under the feet of a church congregation as they tried to exorcise her. |
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Among other things, this will help all parties concerned to exorcise any remaining bad memories of religious conflict, and get on with their lives. |
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His main concern, and that of his players, is that they have the opportunity to exorcise the memory of a bad experience in the Connacht semi-final against Roscommon. |
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Wilson provides vignettes of almost 40 skeptics or atheists, most of whom were unable to exorcise religion completely from their minds and psyches. |
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No matter what she claims she has not managed to exorcise his memory. |
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Some warmth was gleaned from a midweek cup win over Kaiserslautern on penalties, but that alone will not exorcise the memory of last weekend's 5-1 cuffing by Schalke. |
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In the God-fearing, heavily Baptist town of West Memphis, devil worshiping became a scourge to exorcise. |
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Does it merely take a united family leveling threats all at once to exorcise some of the demonic powers of addiction? |
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He's certainly done a lot to exorcise the whole Reagan era, and this is him at his best. |
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If people often use it stupidly, it's their stupidity, not the machine's, and a return to the abacus would not exorcise the failing. |
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Already there is a feeling about this litter of scapegoats that they've been bred not to exorcise Barbosa's ghost, but to replace him. |
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I play the biggest monster sometimes and it's fun to exorcise these demons. |
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Instead, it wants to exorcise all traces of American influence. In this section Which way for Mr Hollande? |
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Its improvised scenes, the way it has of offering itself to onlookers to better exorcise its contrasts? |
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Surprisingly, Jesus' power to exorcise or command the unclean spirit to leave the man is not a major issue in the story. |
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We strongly urge the Secretary-General to exorcise those demons openly and resolutely. |
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As a therapy, the Californian publishes All's Well That Ends Well, a solo album that enables him to exorcise any personal deamon. |
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I believe that, if we wish, we can finally begin to exorcise the demons of our respective pasts and achieve a common reading of history. |
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Although art was already present, it was then that he turned to all means of creativity to exorcise his feelings towards what he lived. |
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In particular, says the Report, it was thought necessary in the Early Church to exorcise the sites of churches to be consecrated or reconsecrated. |
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Later they invited a shaman to exorcise demons. |
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To exorcise the associations of that jarring half-rhyme, Cameron had recourse to the whole rhetorical tool kit — anaphora, antithesis, tricolon, and the rest. |
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Japan set out to exorcise its Doha demons by qualifying for France 1998, with coach Shu Kamo replaced by Takeshi Okada in 1997 after a string of disappointing results during the early qualifying rounds. |
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The difference is that these tales deliberately demonstrated the separation between the imaginary and the real world and thus, contemplating violence could play a very positive role, since it enabled one to exorcise it. |
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Those who are given to thinking the worst of people will be sorely tempted to say that this film is Attal's attempt to exorcise his real life fears. |
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Hoping to exorcise his inner demons, he becomes a volunteer in Africa. |
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Committing themselves at the same time to continuity and change, the declaration from the participants is that to exorcise the danger, Europe has need of its Europeans! |
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Epa, to exorcise the past of an Africa that persists in causing suffering to itself, will have to find his former companions in misfortune and return them to their families. |
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It is all as though some people did not deserve to be invited, before any major decision was taken, to be consulted openly in an attempt to exorcise the evil. |
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Facing the ghosts of negotiations future and a possible failure of the negotiations, delegates might be able to finally exorcise the ghosts of negotiations past and present. |
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But it helped turn Americans against the war. Now, a trickle of American veterans visits the site of the massacre and an accompanying museum nearby, hoping to exorcise their ghosts. |
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The movie is about a priest who tries to exorcise demons from a young girl. |
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First she brought in an ojha to exorcise the house, and when this produced no effect, she consulted a hakim, who purveyed Yunani medicines, and a vaid who practised Ayurveda. |
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