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

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

With a raised torch in one hand, the bewitched person repeats the incantation recited by the exorciser.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

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 Jastrow, Morris

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