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Exorcism

Images

  • François Oudot, Viscount of Auxonne, healing and exorcising people in a village square. Etching, 1760, after F. Devosge.
  • A priest exorcist, with two men playing cymbals and drums. Gouache painting.
  • Christ heals a demoniac; a demon is expelled into the air. Etching by J.D. de Montalegre and M.H. Rentz.
  • Blessings given at the High Church of Our Beloved Lady involving the expulsion of devils and curing of blind and lame people. Etching.
  • An African medicine man or shaman using symbols and small animals to eject a demon (disease). Wood engraving by Dalziel after J. Leech.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Teufelaustreibungen : die Praxis der katholischen Kirche im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert / [Cécile Ernst].

    Ernst, Cécile. | Date: [1972], ©1972
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Roman Catholic Church

    | Date: mid-18th century | Reference: MS.4251
    • Pictures

    The abbé de Gondi being exorcised by Carthusian monks. Engraving by Ferdinand after N. Thomas.

    Thomas, N. (Napoléon) | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 2821863i
    • Books

    English Catholics and the supernatural, 1553-1829 / Francis Young.

    Young, Francis (Francis Kendrick) | Date: [2013]
    • Books
    • Online

    Strange news from Arpington near Bexly in Kent : being a true narrative of a young maid who was possest with several devils or evil spirits, one of which, by the prayers of a pious and religious doctor, who came to visit her, was fetcht [sic] out of her body, and appear'd in the room in the likeness of a large snake, and twisted it self about the doctors neck, whilst he was at his devotion. With an account also of other devils, which yet remain in her, and reveal several strange things, the like never heard before; of which the contents within will give you a particular account. / This narrative is attested by several persons of credit, but amongst many others, by one Mrs. Hopper.

    Hopper, Mrs | Date: 1689
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