exorciser

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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

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Michelet, Jules

A physician, according to the meaning of the old Sanscrit word, was the exorciser of disease, the man who fought with its demon.

From Myth and Science An Essay by Vignoli, Tito

The section closes with the ordinary request of the exorciser to the victim: "Recite this incantation."

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris