Rites that drive out a harmful spirit or cleanse a person or place: the Christian rite of exorcism, the Jewish dybbuk exorcism, the Sri Lankan Tovil, the Latin American limpia and the Mesoamerican temazcal sweat lodge. A ritual belongs here when its cited article describes an exorcism or folk cleansing. It excludes the formal purifications of the great traditions. Examples in the atlas include Rite of Exorcism.
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Temazcal (Wikipedia)
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A temazcal [temasˈkal] is a type of sweat lodge, which originated with indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica.
Dybbuk (Wikipedia)
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In Jewish mythology, a dybbuk (; Yiddish: דיבוק, from the Hebrew verb דָּבַק dāḇaq, meaning 'adhere' or 'cling') is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being exorcised.
Exorcism (Wikipedia)
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Exorcism (from Ancient Greek ἐξορκισμός (exorkismós) 'binding by oath') is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons, djinns, or other malevolent spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that is believed to be possessed.
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