The driving out of evil spirits by *prayers or magical formulae. Exorcism was practised as part of Jewish folk religion and in particular by the *kabbalists and *hasidim who believed individuals could be possessed by the *souls of the...

EXORCISM. The English word exorcism derives from the Greek exorkizein, a compound of ex (out) plus horkizein (to cause to swear, or to bind by an oath). Whereas in Greek the word sometimes is used simply as a more intensive form of the root, meaning...

Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus, from Greek exorkizein - to adjure) is the practice of evicting demons or other evil spiritual entities from a person or place which they are believed to have possessed (taken control of). The practice is quite...

An Exorcism the Movie presentation. Produced by William A. Broker, Bubacarr A. Batchilly. Executive producers, William A. Baker, Lisa Amorim. Directed, written by William A. Baker: Camera (Tecknicolor), Christopher Gosch; editor, John Allen; music, Earl Wooten; production designer, Madla Hruza; costume designer,...

A Judaic ritual, dating from the first century, concerns the dybbuk, an evil or doomed spirit. Rabbi Scott White says Judaism picked up customs such as those surrounding the dybbuk from Eastern Europe when Jewish people were far flung. Such customs now are considered...

A Romanian priest who led a dayslong exorcism ritual for a young nun that ended with the woman's death was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison. Four nuns were also sentenced in the case. The dead nun, Maricica Irina Cornici, believed she heard the...

Officers responding to a report of an exorcism on a young girl found her grandfather choking her and used stun guns to subdue the man, who later died, authorities said Sunday.The 3-year-old girl and her mother, who was also in the room during the struggle...