Sentence examples for case of demonic from inspiring English sources

State Theatre The piece is a powerful retelling of the most famous case of demonic possession in Hebrew literature.

He plays Mendoza, an ex-junkie lapsed Catholic priest who aids New York cop Ralph Sarchie Eric Banaa) to fight a case of demonic possession suffered by a returning Iraq veteran named Santino (Sam Harris).

But how many of them expect to come across a case of demonic possession (outside a movie theater)?

Many people are familiar with the iconic 1973 film "The Exorcist," in which actors Max von Sydow and Jason Miller team up to turn the tables on a truly terrifying case of demonic possession.

But I suspect that there might have been a somewhat less luminous basis for the power of "The Exorcist"'s argument for faith, which was the widespread and apparently rampant perception that the novel was based on a true story, the so-called "1949 case" of demonic possession of a young boy in Cottage City, Maryland.

Earlier this year, a number of Catholic churches across Italy and Spain were reported to have recruited at least 18 priests between them to tackle "an unprecedented rise in cases of demonic possession".

So vivid are the hypnagogia – the visual and auditory hallucinations that make sleep paralysis so upsetting for the sufferer – that some sleep researchers feel it is the most likely explanation for claims of alien abduction, and even cases of demonic possession.

According to USA Today, cases of demonic possession in Italy have tripled over the past few years almost half a million calls per year and the Vatican is in dire need of more priests to handle the demand.

In April of this year, the Vatican held a week long conference to train priests in the rite of exorcism, claiming that there were half a million cases of demonic possession last year in Italy alone.

They were all inspired by the notorious case of supposed demonic possession in 17th-century France, in which a charismatic Catholic priest, Urbain Grandier, was accused of bewitching nuns.

Deadline describes the show as a "propulsive, serialized psychological thriller following two very different men — Father Tomas Ortega Alfonso Herreraandand Father Marcus Lang Ben Danielss) — tackling one family's case of horrifying demonic possession and confronting the face of true evil.