The Penguin Book Of Exorcisms

Haunting accounts of real-life exorcisms through the centuries and around the world, from ancient Egypt and the biblical Middle East to colonial America and twentieth-century South AfricaA Penguin ClassicLevitation. 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 time: In 2019 the Vatican convened 250 priests from 50 countries for a weeklong seminar on exorcism. The Penguin Book of Exorcisms 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 in the French town of Loudun of an entire convent of Ursuline nuns, a Zulu woman who...