If you are...well, DON'T BE MY FRIEND. I am absolutely fine, with the way my life is going. By the way, why I am asking you this is because I have some contacts, they have exclusively agreed to be guest bloggers, only at exorcistblog.blogspot.com. If you are thinking who these "contacts" are, people, they are- Exorcists.
In case you are thinking what on earth are exorcists, well they are dudes who perform exorcism i.e. ridding of demons or other supernatural beings who have possessed a person, or (sometimes) a building or other object.
And you want to know something more? That you never knew...well, you aked for it- recently, many dioceses have formally appointed priests to the function of Exorcist, partly to respond to an increase in requests for the practice after the release of the 1973 movie The Exorcist(yup, hollywood rules!) and partly as a result of reaffirmation of exorcism as a necessary ritual by Pope John Paul II (who reportedly performed three exorcisms himself during his pontificate) and Pope Benedict XVI. Gabriele Amorth is the chief exorcist of the Diocese of Rome, and founder of the International Association of Exorcists.
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Which brings us, inevitably, to the movie. "The Exorcist" is based on a "true story" of a possession in Maryland in the 1940s.
In the real-life case, a boy somewhere between 12 and 15 was allegedly the subject of a full-blown Hollywood-style exorcism, complete with special effects and plot twists.
In reality, the details of the story are much contested and several versions of the tale are circulating.
Highlights include the infamous "floating over the bed" routine and poltergeist activity of various sorts.
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