Narcolepsy treatment: from exorcism and bloodletting to modern therapy with histamine receptor inverse agonists by E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė, R. Masaitienė

“… In this review article, we present the treatment of narcolepsy since ancient times when patients experiencing the phenomenon of incubus (today understood as sleep paralysis with hypnagogic or hypnopompic hallucinations) were “cured” during the sessions of exorcism. At the beginning of the 19th century, in Vilnius clinics, the incubus disease was treated by providing lifestyle, diet, and sleep hygiene recommendations, also using antiphlogistic methods, as well as antispasmodic medicine and quinine bark. …”
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CHAOSKAMPF IN THE ORTHODOX BAPTISM RITUAL by Constantin Oancea

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Masques de Chine, visages du nuo : du patrimoine à l’art premier by Sylvie Beaud

“…Resorting to an archaic term, Chinese masks their and connected practices were united under the term “nuo”, exorcism. The masks, collected by government officials after they were banned, made their way into Western private collections. …”
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Le revenant dans l’œuvre de Toni Morrison : ou le corps hanté de la mémoire by Vanessa Sylvanise

“…Authentic incursions in the tormented memory of a “minority”, which has not done its mourning, each novels appears like a sort of exorcism-therapy, without which it can’t be possible living present or considering future. …”
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ILMU SABUKU, A LOCAL TAREKAT PRACTICED FOR CENTURIES BY THE BANJAR SOCIETY, SOUTHERN KALIMANTAN by Ahmad

“…Some groups even openly keep teaching through religious meetings, through oral and written learning, as well as through visual audio, while others promote it secretly through traditional medicine and exorcism.…”
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Onderscheiding der geesten in Marcus by H. Welzen

“… In reading the gospel of Mark one gets the impression that one of the main activities of Jesus is exorcizing demons and unclean spirits. Exorcizing is part of the battle between powers inimical to God and the spirit of God that descended on Jesus when he was baptized by John. …”
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« Excès et pénurie dans Middlemarch : le cas de M. Casaubon » by Sylvie Jougan

“…But this portrait of the failed scholar can also be read as a form of self-caricature, through which George Eliot was trying to exorcize her fear of failure in writing Middlemarch.…”
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