[VOGL, Rev. Carl, translated by Rev. Celestine KAPSNER]. Begone Satan! A Soul-Stirring Account of Diabolical Possession. Woman Cursed by Her Own Father from 14th Tear till 40th Year. Collegeville, Minnesota, Published by Celestine Kapsner O.S.B., [1935].
8vo. Original printed wrappers; pp. 49, a few illustrations after photographs; wrappers with new backstrip, a few spots here and there, Dublin ownership stamp to title-page and at the end.
First edition of the main source for the horror novel and film The Exorcist. 'The exorcism of a woman variously called Anna Ecklund, Emma Schmidt, or simply ‘Mary,’ by Theophilus Reisinger, a German-born Capuchin monk, in Earling, Iowa, in 1928, is a near legendary event. The case was studied by William Peter Blatty in his research for his novel The Exorcist and many of the famous tropes popularized in the film adaptation of Blatty’s novel (levitation, uncanny projectile vomiting, and a young woman physically restrained on a bed) have their genesis in accounts of this event. Most of what is known about the Earling exorcism comes from a pamphlet called Begone, Satan! A Soul-stirring Account of Diabolical Possession in Iowa, written in German' (Laycock, J., The Secret History of the ‘Earling Exorcism’. In: Giordan, G., Possamai, A. (eds) The Social Scientific Study of Exorcism in Christianity. Popular Culture, Religion and Society. A Social-Scientific Approach, vol 3., online via the publisher Springer).
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