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17 Comments to "The Stories Behind Four Exorcisms"
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Monyet Miskin
March 21st, 2008 at
9:47 pm
For a secular view on the matter of evil and an eye witness report on the experience of an exorcism from a non-religious, qualified psychiatrist, read M. Scott Peck’s ‘Children of the Lie’. Probably out of print now.
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Mark
March 21st, 2008 at
10:19 pm
I really can’t resist pointing out that, while no one is known to have died from demonic possession, there are many cases of subjects who deaths were caused by exorcism.
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steve
March 21st, 2008 at
10:43 pm
Just thought I’d point out that if you were to perform 50 000 exorcisms it would take you 27 years and a couple of months doing 5 a day every day except February 29th. Colour me skeptical.
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emptyminded
March 21st, 2008 at
11:21 pm
Just playing devil’s advocate, maybe he was counting the number of demons, not the number of people possessed. So if one person was possessed by 10 demons, this would skew the math.
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NiteWhite
March 21st, 2008 at
11:30 pm
I would love to undergo an exorcism from the current Pope. He wouldn’t stand a chance against my inner demon but I’d take an easy on him just for wearing a dress.
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Terry
March 22nd, 2008 at
12:07 am
Joke
What happens if you don’t pay the exorcist?You get repossessed. Ha Ha!
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Christophe
March 22nd, 2008 at
12:29 am
I want to believe.
Hey, how about teaming with a medical/scientific team with videos for the next exorcism?@Terry : lol
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Ty
March 22nd, 2008 at
2:52 am
Are there any famous examples of exorcisms on males?
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Alex Fear
March 22nd, 2008 at
5:24 am
Exorcism is not strictly limited to Catholicism and in answer to Ty above, why not do some research into an apostle by the name of Smith Wigglesworth.
Wigglesworths most famous exorcism was the exorcism of a public executioner by the name of James Berry. It was successful and Berry went on to become an evangelist.
Wigglesworth also had a unique technique when it came to healing people, I’ll let you find that out for yourselves but it’s surely worth a feature of its own on Neatorama?
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Adam Stanhope
March 22nd, 2008 at
8:16 am
I’m an IMDB addict as well. If I see a movie that I’m even marginally interested I love to go to IMDB and see where it was filmed, who was in it, what songs were on the soundtrack, etc. The “filming locations” aspect of every listing is like a little gift from the cinema gods.
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anon
March 22nd, 2008 at
9:34 am
Demonolatry is powerful, read the Goetia and use the sigils inside to contact the demons.
Demons are powerful. The Church is only expelling angels who still work with the so-called god, they aren’t expelling actual demons “fallen angels” (actually former gods which the church called demons).
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leah
March 22nd, 2008 at
1:21 pm
My dad worked as a sound man on the movie “The Exorcist” when it filmed in the Washington DC area.
He said that “Robbie Doe” consulted on the film and was on set every day. (Everyone associated with the film agreed not to disclose Robbie’s real name.) Dad said he seemed nice, but weird. They also had exorcists and higher ups from the Catholic Church and Catholic Univeristy (where some of the movie was filmed.) They were an unpleasant bunch and only one of them would talk to Robbie.
Dad said that a lot of weird stuff happened on set, and not a day went by without someone getting hurt. Lots of people worked a day, then quit. Dad was on strike from his regular job at the time and was willing to risk his safety in order to feed the family.
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Lea
March 22nd, 2008 at
5:03 pm
I read a book called “Possessed” about the possession and exorcism of Robbie Doe. I forget who it’s by, but it was a really good book, and a lot more believable than the Exorcist (the movie, the book was really good).
And from what I have read, I believe today, when a Catholic priest performs an exorcism, it must be okayed by the Vatican, performed by a trained Exorcist, and attended by a medical doctor and psychologist/psychiatrist.
@Leah: I think that’s really neat you can add some personal familial insight into the movie. Also, everyone tries to spell my name like yours.
@Ty: Robbie Doe is the second one on the list! -
TyrannicalDuck
March 24th, 2008 at
2:30 am
Actually, exorcism isn’t even restricted to Christianity. In Islam, possession is attributed to jinn, not demons. My wife personally witnessed an Islamic exorcism: a young lady of about 18 was apparently possessed, and brought before a muslim cleric. He summoned another young girl (probably around 13 or 14 years old), and said that he was going to work through her to exorcise the possessed girl (don’t ask…I don’t know). He then proceeded to talk to some other jinn through the younger girl, and told the jinn to “burn” the possessing jinn, in effect killing it. The younger girl, who only spoke Portuguese, spoke in fluent Urdu in a man’s voice the entire time. My wife says that the screams from the older, possessed girl were horrifying in the least, and she still has nightmares about it.
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Padraig
March 24th, 2008 at
2:10 pm
When all else fails, there is still hope: John Constantine, Hellblazer.
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Believer
April 6th, 2008 at
9:54 pm
To Anon,
Yes, demons are very powerful. But they are no match for God. It appears you are knowledgeable of how that world works. If so, then you are aware that there is nothing that they can do to overcome the power of God and Jesus. I’m no Bible thumper, but I do know God’s power is infinitely greater than demons’. You know it, I know it, and certainly they know it.
Oh! Another thing, those “former gods” that you refer to as the ones that are actually being exorcised, they too are demons. They are also part of the fallen angels that we were told about millenia ago. Don’t be fooled. They too are no match for God’s power.
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vertol
April 15th, 2008 at
2:44 pm
To Believer,
Even more powerful than God are the human facilities of logic and reason (see Stone Problem as well as the contradiction inherent in being omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent).
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