exorciser
Example Sentences
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The individual having been bewitched by means of certain herbs concocted probably into potions, other herbs are prepared by the exorciser as an antidote.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
In these tragi-comedies the exorciser represented God, or at any rate the Archangel, overthrowing the dragon.
From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet
Accompanying these threats, the actions indicated were symbolically performed by the exorciser on effigies of the witches made, in this case, of bitumen covered with pitch.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
A shrill whistle was heard, and then another, and the police director laid his hand on the shoulder of the exorciser accompanied with the remark:— "You are in custody."
From Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories by Julian Hawthorne
A Mass John Scott, minister of Peebles, is reported to have been the last renowned exorciser, and to have lost his life in a contest with an obstinate spirit.
From Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1 by Sir Walter Scott
