exorcisers

Spirit removal specialists

Exorcisers are people who perform exorcisms—rituals intended to drive out evil spirits or demons from possessed persons, places, or objects.

The term applies to clergy authorized by their church to perform such rites, as well as to practitioners in various spiritual traditions: The exorcisers worked through the night to free the afflicted woman.

cultural

possession

State of owning

  • demonsMalevolent supernatural beings
  • spiritsLiquor or apparitions
  • djinnSpirit in Arab folklore

entities · haunting · deliverance · liberation · cleansing · purification · dispossession · casting out · banishment · affliction

ritual

incantations

Ritual words for magic

chanting · sacred texts · smudging · salt · bells · candles · relics · amulets · talismans · rosaries

religious

priests

Ordained religious leaders

  • clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
  • shamansSpiritual healers and intermediaries
  • monksCloistered religious men

imams · rabbis · ministers · holy men · demonologists · spirit mediums · witch doctors · lamas · healers · ordained

fictional

Constantine

Emperor who embraced Christianity

occultists · demonologists · Van Helsing · ghost hunters

Opposites
spiritual role/function

exorcisersdemons

Malevolent supernatural beings

summoners · evil spirits · conjurers · devils · necromancers

spiritual agency

exorciserspossessors

Those who own something

tormentors · afflicters · corruptors · tempters · deceivers

Family

exorcise, exorcised, exorciser, exorcises

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