The tone veers from serious to comic horror at this point and encompasses several botched attempts to exorcise the ghost. |
The sound generated by the bamboo could both arouse gods to be appeased or exorcise evil spirits. |
Residents would even pray to some of the edifices to exorcise evil spirits and bring good weather for crops. |
Steinbeck's appreciation of him is partly an obituary, partly an attempt to exorcise his ghost. |
And they are having trouble and have had trouble for years, decades, trying to exorcise him from their lives. |
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. |