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The body is believed to normally be "heavy" (ilum) with sin, and possession is the process of the Holy Spirit throwing the sins from one's body, making the person "light" (fong) again. [115] This is a completely new ritual for the Urapmin, who have no indigenous tradition of spirit-possession.
Exorcisms are performed by qualified a Raqi or a saint (darvish) who has been blessed by God (barakah). [33] To qualify as a Raqi , one needs, among other criteria, to believe in God, practise the Five Pillars of Islam , follow the Sunnah as examplified by Muhammad and the saints, believe that the Quran has the power to influence spirits, and ...
Bhūta is a Sanskrit term that carries the connotations of "past" and "being" [2] and, because it has connection with "one of the most wide-spread roots in Indo-European — namely, *bheu/*bhu-", has similar-sounding cognates in virtually every branch of that language family, e.g., Irish (bha), English (be), Latvian (but) and Persian (budan).
Abba Jose ben Hanan said that God made a horn grow out of Cain. R. Hanin said that God made Cain an example to penitents (Gen. Rab. 22:12). [14] Rashi (1:4) comments on Genesis 4:15 by saying that the mark was one of the Hebrew letters of the Tetragrammaton: "He engraved a letter of His [God's] Name onto his [Cain's] forehead."
2. Make a food offering. Apparently spirits can be bribed. Making an offering of food and alcohol—“usually beer or some kind of scotch or gin,” Towle recommends—can be a great way to ...
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The New York Paranormal Society and other experts share the activities that indicate a paranormal presence—here are five signs that your house is haunted.
Jesus drives out a demon or unclean spirit, from the 15th-century Très Riches Heures. In English translations of the Bible, unclean spirit is a common rendering [1] of Greek pneuma akatharton (πνεῦμα ἀκάθαρτον; plural pneumata akatharta (πνεύματα ἀκάθαρτα)), which in its single occurrence in the Septuagint translates Hebrew ruaḥ tum'ah (רוּחַ ...