exorciser

Example Sentences

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To prescribe the formula to be used to the one appealing for help, is the special function of the priest acting as exorciser.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

He was at once the Devil and the Devil’s exorciser.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules

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

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

There is no place for ghostly foxes in the beautiful nature-world revealed by new studies to the new generation The omnipotent exorciser and reformer is the Kodomo.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio