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The exorcism was covered in the podcast My Favorite Murder in the episode "The Devil's Number". The Last Podcast on the Left covered Michel's story in episodes 473 and 474. The video game Faith: The Unholy Trinity uses audio from the exorcism tapes for a boss fight. The song "Anneliese" by the Scottish band Hellripper is inspired by the events.
1928 — Emma Schmidt (pseudonym Anna Ecklund) underwent a 14-day exorcism in Earling, Iowa, performed by a Catholic priest. This is the most well-documented case of alleged demonic possession in history and a minor inspiration for The Exorcist. The priest who led this exorcism was Fr. Theophilus Riesinger.
The Jewish exorcism ritual is performed by a rabbi who has mastered Kabbalah. Also present is a minyan (a group of ten adult males), who gather in a circle around the possessed person. The group recites Psalm 91 three times, and then the rabbi blows a shofar (a ram's horn).
Following his first visit on April 22, Maginot performed an exorcism on Ammons, per the Indiana Star, witnessed by two police officers and Samantha Ilic, the DCS family case manager. He performed ...
Exorcist Rachel Stavis has faced down the malevolent entities of the spirit world more times than she can count.. Now, ahead of Halloween, the real-life demon catcher offers a chilling premonition ...
It's worth noting that Blatty was inspired to write the book after hearing about a real-life exorcism — the 1949 case of "Roland Doe," who received multiple Catholic Church-administered exorcisms.
Augustine noted that rites of exorcism by exsufflation (breathing upon the candidate) were also performed for the baptism of infants. [ 4 ] The office of Exorcist was not a part of the sacrament of Holy Orders but as a sacramental was instead first conferred on those who had the special charism to perform its duties and later to those studying ...
In Christianity, exorcism involves the practice of casting out one or more demons from a person whom they believe to have been possessd by demons. The person performing the exorcism, known as an exorcist, is often a member of the Christian Church, or an individual thought to be graced with special powers or skills.