Demons, Exorcism, Divination

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Demons, Exorcism, Divination Magic

• Lehman Myers
• Rituals of Divination Supernaturalization of
  Knowledge
• Pandian

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Demons

• Realities in the human mind
• Possess the power
• Rituals to counter-balance good evil
• Balance is fragile
• Inflict pain anguish in people
• Most common is the demon

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Possessions

• Possessions
• An integration of spirit matter, force or
  power corporeal reality, where boundaries
  between individual environment are negotiable.
• i.e. Aymara Indians of Bolivia
• Haitians Voodoo rituals
• Exorcism
• the driving away of evil spirits such as demons,
  by chanting, praying, commanding, or other ritual
  means.
• Caused by an evil spirit entering the body/mind
• Prevalent in American Indians (Latin America).

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Exorcism

• Techniques for exorcising
• Sweat baths
• Trephing- Egyptians Incas
• Manipulating massaging the body
• Sucking out
• Scraping or Sponging
• Reciting spells, coaxing, singing, tempting,
  causing discomfort, etc.
• Catholic church continues to accept and perform
  exorcisms in Latin America

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Divination

• Learning about the future or about things that
  may be hidden
• Magic Religion basis
• 10 Divination Techniques
• Dreams
• Presentiments
• Body Actions
• Ordeals
• Possessions by spirits
• Necromancy
• Animal types
• Mechanical types
• Nature types
• Miscellaneous divination

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Magic

• Function
• Imitative Magic
• Contagious Magic
• Sympathetic Magic
• Magic vs. Witchcraft

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Rituals of Divination Supernaturalization of
Knowledge

• Divinatory information
• Intervention with deities/spirits
• Interpreting natural phenomena
• Special techniques
• Practitioners
• Shamans, witches, sorcerers
• Urban practitioners- Astrologers, palmists,
  mediums/psychics

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Rituals of Divination Supernaturalization of
Knowledge

• Divination without Human Experiment
• Augury
• Ornithomancy
• Geomancy
• Pyromancy
• Lithomancy
• Hydromancy
• Astrology
• Somatomancy
• Neomancy
• Prenology
• Ophthalmoscopy
• Palmistry
• Metoscopy
• Physiognomy

• Divination Involving Human Experiment
• Ordeal
• Haruspicy
• Hepatoscopy
• Scapulimancy
• Divination through Dreams Trances
• Oneiromancy
• Chremastismos