exorciser

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In the county clerk's office in Charlestown, Jefferson county, West Virginia, can be seen the deed made by Livingstone and wife to Denis Cahill, the supposed exorciser of the fiend.

From The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry With Legends of the Surrounding Country by Barry, Joseph

With the function of prophecy they combined the office of physician or rather of exorciser.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

A higher mode of belief is the best exorciser, because it makes the spiritual at one with the actual world instead of hostile, or at best alien.

From Among My Books First Series by Lowell, James Russell

In this way the exorciser proceeds to enumerate an exceedingly long list of sins—no less than one hundred—most of which are ethical misdemeanors, while others are merely ceremonial transgressions.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

The exorciser would have no difficulty in threading his way through the complicated mass.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris