| It can also take the form of an exorcism, where the treatment is meant to drive out an evil spirit or devil from the victim. |
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| Similarly, there are other rituals outside their sphere of activity, such as the propitiation or exorcism of dangerous spirits. |
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| When this occurs, the paraji shows an aspect of her ability as a dukun by conducting an exorcism. |
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| During the exorcism we asked her what organisation she had been initiated into and she wouldn't tell us but we managed to squeeze it out of her. |
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| I remember when thousand of hippies and yippies surrounded the Pentagon during the Vietnam War and held an exorcism to drive out the evil demons. |
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| She did suffer a lot of physical and emotional pain, but putting it on canvas was a form of exorcism, and she did it with a dark sense of humour. |
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| Another psychologist, E.M. Thornton, extends the analogy between hypnotism, mesmerism, and exorcism. |
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| His well-meaning wife also once performed an exorcism in my kitchen, but that's another story. |
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| Coleridge created his Xanadu by locating his poems in the true, at many levels, and working towards a kind of exorcism and expiation. |
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| She read a ceremony of exorcism over the ten-year-old boy, and she and Brando prayed. |
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| The first section, dealing with Mesopotamian magic, stresses the similarities to modern European rituals of healing and exorcism. |
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| The mother of a possessed little girl is talking to the recently arrived priest who is going to perform an exorcism. |
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| However, as one reviewer put it, such popular demonologies seem able to survive any amount of exorcism. |
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| Thereafter, formal rituals of exorcism were adopted by the Church throughout the medieval centuries. |
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| One was an attempt at exorcism, the other a rather more practical if overly melodramatic way of making the pain go away. |
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| An exorcism is a religious rite for driving Satan or evil spirits out of a possessed person, place, or thing. |
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| Rituals like this of purification and exorcism are a traditional feature of Shinto. |
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| It has been a kind of exorcism, and in telling the most personal story you hope to reach people. |
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| The Salpuri dance, which is the last ritual process in the Korean shamanist exorcism known as Kut, will also be performed on the occasion. |
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| Some viewers and critics wanted exorcism and purification through some sort of commentary or strictly objective stance. |
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| The renovation, so long resisted by mother, was meant to be an act of vengeance, assertion and exorcism, but it only seems to stir up memories. |
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| Two things are worth noting, apart from the obvious one that this man believes without any irony that the cure for unbelief is exorcism. |
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| Through this divinely-sponsored exorcism, the infant survives to lead the family out of darkness into the light. |
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| Furthermore, he draws an analogy between the belief in hypnosis and the belief in demonic possession and exorcism. |
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| Within the Church of England canon law had, until 1969, allowed for the use of exorcism, provided that permission was obtained from the diocesan bishop. |
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| Here he is alluding to the exorcism to which catechumens had to submit prior to their Baptism. |
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| In actual fact, I think it was more an attempt at personal exorcism. |
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| Amazingly no one was killed, and the parish priest then led the children and adults of the village in a kind of exorcism, imitating the noises of the helicopters. |
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| Solemn exorcism is an extremely unusual step to take and can only be done after every other possibility, including mental illness, has been discounted. |
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| Attempts at exorcism have been both incredibly painful and unsuccessful. |
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| The dybbuk, which can be expelled only by exorcism, at first refuses to leave Leah but is eventually persuaded to do so. |
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| Necrobutcher of the Norwegian black metal band, Mayhem met with Larson for an exorcism. |
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| Balinese villagers playing in the barong exorcism dance-drama are not merely actors exercising theatrical skills. |
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| The rite of exorcism is not quite as sensational as movies and legend might have one believe. |
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| To go to a mainstream church in Nigeria would risk beatings or even a forced exorcism. |
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| Parishioners near Broué, in northern France, dragged their priest out of bed and forced him to perform a rite of exorcism on the cloud. |
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| Adoration, especially at night, is a form of exorcism in which Satan is forced to flee from souls and the places oppressed by his presence. |
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| Some churches have focused on healing through prayer and exorcism, whereas others view these practices with suspicion. |
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| Some religious groups believe that persons with disabilities are possessed by demons and practise exorcism upon them. |
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| Or disability has been understood as a sign of demonic activity, in which case exorcism is needed to overcome the disability. |
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| Related to the collective unconsciousness, rumours are a manifestation of wishes and an exorcism for anxiety. |
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| The music sometimes sounding like the exorcism of a multitude of demons, each one of whom was mightily resisting his expulsion. |
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| Father Vicenzo Taraborelli in Rome is an exorcist with set office hours and dedicated phone lines to take exorcism appointments. |
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| It was identified as an ancient exorcism technique that indicated she had been suspected of supernatural powers. |
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| He will insist otherwise, but today is an opportunity for exorcism. |
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| L'État des lieux can be read as an ironic, vicarious exorcism, played out on Tremblay's behalf by a diva from the province of Quebec who denies her roots to build her international career after singing her first false note. |
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| Our aim should be to immerse ourselves in a prolonged ritual of purification or a sort of exorcism, which will free us from what we have considered the forces of evil. |
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| And convinced that Satanists are operating nearby, it's not long before she's called in to perform her first exorcism. |
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| Cheoyongmu is a court dance today performed on stage but formerly used to dispel evil spirits and pray for tranquillity at royal banquets or during exorcism rites on New Year's Eve to promote good fortune. |
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| As a priest, it would have only taken a small step to recognize that if you have enough power to cast a demon out during exorcism, you might be able to make a demon do anything you want. |
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| Catechumens trod on goatskin that symbolized their sin, and were anointed from head to foot in the oil of exorcism, before plunging naked into the font. |
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| Whipping up emotions and charging families for the exorcism of their children, these preachers have turned the suffering of children into a lucrative business. |
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| Pastors accuse a child of being a witch and later the family pays for exorcism. |
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| This is dance music that, like New Order and Pet Shop Boys before it, reestablishes the dancefloor not as haven for hedonists but as site for the expression and exorcism of heartache. |
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| Female graduate student, studying kaballah, Zohar, exorcism of dybbuks, seeks mensch. |
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| Extreme unction is also coupled with exorcism for the restraint of the powers of evil a practice taken over from Judaism by the early church and still retained by the Orthodox Eastern Church for mental diseases. |
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| This results in beatings, starvation or other violent exorcism practices. |
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| Mentally unwell Tongans are often torn between seeking a traditional healer's exorcism or herbal potion or a psychiatrist's drug prescription. |
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| Whether the formal rites of exorcism will ever become one of the treatments, ranging from psychosurgery to cognitive behavioral therapy remains to be seen. |
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| There is also a chapter devoted to child exorcism, and a chapter on male and female circumcision and the secret history of female genital cutting in America. |
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| In these portraits there is ant shrapnel, exorcism as excoriation, an abrading of the face to reveal its abraxas, its cemeterial grue, its fecal infinity. |
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| Black civilization passes then through brutality and superstition, through the primogenial rites of deadly exorcism carried out by the Congo witch doctor. |
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