Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Exorcisms? of children in Ginetes documents

2013-11-07 Thread Margaret Vicente
Terri, I'm not sure if this will be of help to clarify what has already been said by others but exorcism is a common pratice in baptism up to this day. If you have been present at a baptism you might recall the priest involves not only the parents and godparents in the ritual but also present. T

[AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Exorcisms? of children in Ginetes documents

2013-11-06 Thread Terri
Thanks for all your answers. It gave me more insight about why a child's document would say 'exorcism'. I had first even thought that it could have been a seisure or something they saw in a child and mistook it for being 'possessed by the devil' since they wouldn't have known much about medica