Word: exorcist
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Political Exorcist. Although he is far better known as the eloquent spokesman of American conservatism, Author Kirk has been writing ghost stories for years. He worked on Old House of Fear, his first novel, in the high, narrow Victorian house in Mecosta, Mich. (pop. 300), built by his great-grandfather. Kirk, a bachelor, occupies the house with an unmarried great-aunt, spends much of his time studying the family ghosts, whose personalities he claims to be able to distinguish...
...affairs. The rite of exorcism is still authorized (in the Greek Orthodox as well as the Roman Catholic Church) for the purpose of driving out the Devil from a possessed person. But almost no cases of a real "possession" occur. Contributor Joseph de Tonquedec, S.J., designated as the Grand Exorcist of the Archdiocese of Paris, has not come across a case of pure possession in 20 years...
...very much pleased with the Feb. 17 TIME article "Exorcist & Energumen" relative to the Earling, Iowa exorcism. Wish to congratulate you on your reverent treatise of same. Have been flooded with letters. . . . You may be asked about the price of pamphlet. Sells 18? by mail, eight for $1, and 100 for $8. My motive for publishing it was for its own good, not for any remuneration. I appreciate your prudent co-operation in bringing about a sane understanding regarding this case of possession...
...Anthony's Monastery of the Capuchin Friars at Marathon, Wis. last week, a wise and white-haired monk named Rev. Theophilus Riesinger went about his daily orisons and meditations, indifferent to the fact that he was being widely publicized among U. S. Catholics as a potent and mystic exorcist of demons. Publicizers were the Religious Bulletin of the University of Notre Dame, and the Catholic Register of Denver, whose 300,000 subscribers last fortnight read the following story condensed from a pamphlet called Begone Satan...