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30 Morbid Minutes

Making An Exorcist

30 Morbid Minutes

30 Morbid Minutes

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8731 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

With a renewed interest in and demand for exorcists worldwide, we’re looking at the Vatican’s relatively new “exorcist school,'' and what it takes to become a fully-fledged exorcist. Plus, how an exorcism is performed, and the Roman Rite, a text that serves as the official guidebook. We’re also investigating who can request an exorcism and why, and the dangerous stigmas surrounding religious cleansing. Go to http://everlywell.com/30mm to get 20% off an at-home lab test. Go to http://betterhelp.com/30MM to get 10% off your first month! Follow us on Social: https://twitter.com/elysewillems https://twitter.com/JessicaVasami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is a rooster teeth production. Exorcisms are performed daily around the world and the demand is seemingly growing.

0:40.3

But what goes into making an exorcist?

0:43.3

We find out on 30 Morbid Minutes. This is the podcast where we cover topics, history, events, people, places, and ideas of a morbid, macab, dark, and downright grisly nature.

1:09.3

I'm Elise Willems.

1:10.3

And I'm Jessica Vasami. In April

1:12.1

1978, Father Ernst Alt, 40, and Father Arnold Renz, 67 years old, stood trial for negligent

1:19.5

homicide. The spectators in the courtroom listened to tapes of guttural screams and obscenities

1:25.6

amidst chance of prayer. The screams were made by

1:29.3

Annalise Michelle, who was 23 years old when the two priests in the defendant's box had

1:34.3

conducted an exorcism on her, two years prior, ultimately resulting in her death.

1:39.3

This trial was the first of its kind in German history and garnered the rapt attention of the public.

1:46.6

Now, despite a long history with epilepsy and mental illness, Annalise's parents and the priests

1:51.8

were convinced that the only explanation for her incurable and heightened vexation was demonic possession.

1:59.6

She endured months and months of grueling rights and exorcism

2:03.2

in extreme starvation and dehydration. By the time of her death, she was absolutely emaciated,

2:09.5

basically a skeleton, a husk of a human. Yes, and even after her death, Annalise's parents were

2:15.0

convinced that their daughter's soul remained harbored by

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