exorciser

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These exorcisers were of course priests, and at an early period of Babylonian culture it must have been one of the main functions of priests to combat the influence of evil spirits.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

"It is eleven o'clock and the exorcisers of ghosts will not arrive before midnight, so we have time to look round us, and to lay our plans."

From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Maupassant, Guy de

He ordered money to be paid to the exorcisers, to the nuns.

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

But among the peasantry Buddhist exorcisers are still called to attend cases of fox-possession, and while acting as exorcisers are still spoken of as Yamabushi.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

The exorcisers then put to her this cruel question, to which they themselves could have given the best answer:—“Why, Beelzebub, do you speak so ill of your great friend?”

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