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Hickman Whittington: Amateur Exorcist
Hickman Whittington: Amateur Exorcist Hickman Whittington, who claimed to banish ghosts with a secret Bible verse. Near the town of Equality, Illinois, stands a mansion called Hickory Hill, also known...
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A Methodist Exorcism: 1763
Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism, by William Hogarth, 1762 Today let us look at an account of an 18th-century Protestant exorcism. It may be difficult to look beyond the conventional religious...
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Polt or Possessed on Prince Edward Island?
Polt or Possessed on Prince Edward Island? The possessed girl’s levitation scene from The Exorcist. Polt or Possessed on Prince Edward Island? Rather a busy day here, so a quick look at a Canadian case...
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An Anglican Exorcism of an “Unclean Spirit”
From The living monument, in parts, with some compositions in rhymes of liberal thoughts of past and future events, to lovers of light and liberty, N. Swenson, 1919 In these lax, pre-apocalyptic...
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Beelzebub in New York
Beelzebub in New York, book devils, 1875 Yet another school devil/possession panic has hit the headlines, this time in Peru, where the children are seeing visions of a Man in Black. Schools tend to be...
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Charlie Dove: Ghost Eradicator
Charlie Dove: Ghost Eradicator Long before the era of black t-shirts, Spirit Boxes, and ghost-pro action cameras beloved of today’s ghost hunters, there was a man who stood alone in the field of...
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Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg
Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg Royal Irish Rifles rations party, First day of the Somme 1 July 1916 Canada, the Somme, and Gettysburg This day presents quite the little dilemma. I am nothing if not...
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