wives may command the demons to leave their husband’s bodies and the husbands their wives’ bodies. For the husband it is a two-fold authority; the one as head of the household and the other by virtue of the rights over his wife’s body. As for other familial relationships, he further explains: From experience, most exorcists concede that there is an ability to command the demons to depart … in relation to those of one’s immediate family. It appears due to the nature of the obligations of the Fourth Commandment, that children, when saying binding prayers and other prayers of this sort for the
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