REL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Prentice Hall, Clove
27 Feb 2018
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Hindu healers called ojas and shokas, perform healing rituals on ill victims that are caused by spirits or demons called prets and bhuts. The illness can include back luck, people who become barren and behaves unacceptably (kinsley 61). The healer can offer it worship, called puja, and this can include food or liquor. The spirit is given to the helping spirit, and the spirit or demon is imprisoned. If the spirit refuses to leave the patient, the healer brings them to a temple. At pisach mochan a ritual is performed by taking a piece of the clothing and transfer the spirit into the cloth and then the patient nails the piece of cloth to the gnarled tree in the temple (kinsley 66). Eventually, the demon gives up and promises to no longer harm the patient. The secrets of voodoo film discussed about the types of rituals performed in the voodoo religion.
