The Aix-en-Provence Possessions and Louis Gaufridy
In 1611, the possession of two Ursuline women drew exorcists, demonic voices and the Parlement of Provence toward the priest…
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Tag: Exorcism
The Possessed Nuns of Louviers and Madeleine Bavent
Behind the walls of a Louviers convent, accusations of possession, nocturnal rites and corrupted clergy led to exorcisms, trials and…
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George Lukins and the Seven Devils of Yatton
For years George Lukins was said to bark, sing in altered voices and answer as seven spirits before clergy confronted…
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The 1949 St. Louis Exorcism Behind The Exorcist
A Jesuit diary records weeks of prayers, restraints, wounds and apparent responses to sacred objects during the 1949 exorcism that…
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The Earling Exorcism and the Demons of Emma Schmidt
In 1928, Father Theophilus Riesinger entered an Iowa convent to conduct three prolonged exorcism sessions over the woman remembered as…
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The Loudun Possessions and the Devils in the Convent
In 1630s France, a convent erupted in visions, convulsions and demonic names—drawing priests, magistrates and thousands into the Loudun possessions.
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Anneliese Michel and the Last Exorcisms of Klingenberg
Between 1975 and 1976, Anneliese Michel endured 67 rites of exorcism in Klingenberg, leaving recordings, testimony and a tragedy that…
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Nicole Aubrey and the Exorcism Wars of France
In 1566, a teenage woman called Nicole Aubrey was carried into Laon Cathedral, where Beelzebub spoke before crowds and the…
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