Exorcism
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Since 1973’s The Exorcist, demonic possession and exorcism have dominated horror pop culture. But what are the origins of exorcism within the Catholic Church and how has it changed over the centuries?
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of religious trauma, death, persecution, possession, ableism, medical malpractice, forced marriage, institutionalizing, mental illness, self-harm, homophobia, transphobia, and violence.
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- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
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Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.2 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.2 | And I'm Julia. And today we are a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.3 | And today we are going to be talking about something that really piqued my interest, you know, in the Halloween season this year. |
| 0:47.5 | Because it's Halloween, Amanda, for the first time, I watched The Exorcist. |
| 0:52.3 | How did it take this long? |
| 0:54.1 | You know what? |
| 0:54.6 | Like, that's a great question. |
| 0:55.9 | I know it's a classic and it is like considered one of the scariest movies of all time. |
| 1:01.0 | I've heard everyone say that to me before, but I hadn't gotten around to it for whatever reason, |
| 1:06.0 | maybe because it had a reputation of being so scary, you know? |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, you have to be in a very specific kind of |
| 1:12.5 | place to be like, I want to sign up for, I think, the scariest scary movie. And you know what? Everyone's |
| 1:17.8 | opinion on what is scary is different, which is what makes the horror genre so interesting and so |
| 1:23.5 | vast in its options. But I just, I never got around to actually watching it. And I sat down |
| 1:31.0 | and I watched it. And it was fine? Really? Yeah, like, I respected for popularizing the |
| 1:39.7 | exorcism genre in film. And it did a lot of stuff that a lot of movies would end up like mimicking or paying homage to later on in film history. |
| 1:49.3 | But I thought it was good. Like I thought it was fine. That's about it. It was a really slow moving plot, to be quite honest. It was a lot of people just talking. |
| 1:59.8 | I call this a friends situation, which, |
| 2:03.2 | you know, again, lots of people love friends. I'm not taking that away from you. But what I am saying |
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