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"text": "But in this part I am going to mention, it lay chiefly in the people deceived, or equally in both; and this was in wearing charms, philtres, exorcisms, amulets, and I know not what preparations, to fortify the body with them against the plague; as if the plague was not the hand of God, but a kind of possession of an evil spirit, and that it was to be kept off with crossings, signs of the zodiac, papers tied up with so many knots, […].",
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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"lang_code": "sv",
"sense": "ritual driving out of evil spirits",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "andeutdrivning"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"lang_code": "tr",
"sense": "ritual driving out of evil spirits",
"word": "egzorsizm"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"lang_code": "uk",
"roman": "ekzorcýzm",
"sense": "ritual driving out of evil spirits",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "екзорци́зм"
},
{
"code": "vo",
"lang": "Volapük",
"lang_code": "vo",
"sense": "ritual driving out of evil spirits",
"word": "sädiabam"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"lang_code": "yi",
"roman": "bashverung",
"sense": "ritual driving out of evil spirits",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "באַשווערונג"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"lang_code": "yi",
"roman": "hashboe",
"sense": "ritual driving out of evil spirits",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "השבעה"
}
],
"word": "exorcism"
}
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