Name: The Penguin Book of Exorcisms
Brand: Joseph P Laycock

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9780143135470

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Paperback

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Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-30

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Penguin

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1 / Extended format: No / Paperback / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Joseph P Laycock

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Counter Culture

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Levitation. Feats of superhuman strength. Speaking in tongues. A hateful, glowing stare. The signs of spirit possession have been documented for thousands of years and across religions and cultures, even into our own time. Unsettling and chilling, <i>The Penguin Book of Exorcisms</i> brings together the most astonishing accounts: Saint Anthony set upon by demons in the form of a lion, a bull and a panther, who are no match for his devotion and prayer; the Prophet Muhammad casting an enemy of God out of a young boy; fox spirits in medieval China and Japan; a headless bear assaulting a woman in sixteenth-century England; the possession of an entire convent of Ursuline nuns in a French town; a Zulu woman who daily floated to a height of five feet; the exorcism in Earling, Iowa, in 1928 that inspired the film <i>The Exorcist</i>; a Filipina girl 'bitten by devils'; and a rare example of a priest's letter requesting permission of a bishop to perform an exorcism - after witnessing a boy walk backwards up a wall. . .

The Penguin Book of Exorcisms

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