Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism
A Religion, Nonfiction, Horror book. Anyone who had ever learned Latin from a Jesuit teacher has heard that...
"The Exorcist", a 1973 movie about a twelve-year-old girl possessed by the Devil, frightened people more than any horror film ever did. Many moviegoers sought therapy to rid themselves of fears they could not explain. Psychiatrists coined the term "cinematic neurosis" for patients who left the movie feeling a terrifying presence of demons. At the Washington premiere, a young woman stood outside the theater, trembling. "I come out here in the sunlight," she said, "and I see people's eyes, and they frighten me."Among the few moviegoers unmoved by the horror were two priests, Father William S. Bowdern and Father Walter Halloran, members of the Jesuit community at St. Louis University. "Billy came out shaking his head about the little girl bouncing on the bed and urinating on the crucifix," Halloran remembers. "He was kind of angry. 'There is a good message that can be given by this thing,' he said. The message was the fact that evil spirits operate in our world."Bowdern and Halloran knew that the movie was fictional veneer masking a terrible reality. Night after night in March and April 1949,...
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- ISBN: 9780595132645 / 595132642
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Anyone who had ever learned Latin from a Jesuit teacher has heard that word. Imparting a lesson in etymology and ethics simultaneously, Jesuit teachers point out that pusillus meant very small and animus meant soul. Cowardice is not just a matter of ignoble fear; cowardice shrinks the soul. This is not the Jesuit way. Thomas B. Allen, Possessed: The True Story of an Exorcism //
Not a bad book on exorcism but not the greatest either. Details are sketchy and taken solely from a supposed diary kept about this exorcism. Eyewitness accounts are the only substantial evidence that the other has to prove the credibility of this book and, they differ in perceptions of the event as well. If this were the only book you... I have always been fascinated with horror and the paranormal. I remember watching The Exorcist and being fascinated rather than scared. I have always known that the movie was based on a book that was inspired by an actual documented case of possession. It wasn't until years later that I found out that the diary that was kept by the... I can't believe I read this home alone AND so late at night... I must be TRYING to give myself nightmares! Still, it is a fascinating and horrifying read - made all the more so because it is presented in a very non-fiction manner. The idea of such a modern, and well-documented exorcism sure does make you wonder... especially since Chicago...
