Demons—R—Us

Don’t Try This At Home…Kids

Book your flights and hotel rooms early, ladies and gentlemen, here’s your chance to visit Italy and get in on a class about exorcism while your at it:

A far cry from sorcerers, satanists and other practitioners whom he dismisses as "charlatans," Italian exorcist Andrea Gemma fights the devil only with the strength of his prayers and advises Catholics: 'Don't do this at home".

A rotund, expansive Neapolitan, the 74-year-old bishop was the first lecturer to face the Catholic Church's latest crop of budding exorcists at a unique course run by clergy at Rome's Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University. The course began Thursday and will run for several weeks…

Asked about his method of discerning real cases of possession from other psychological illnesses, the priest revealed his "secret weapon":

"If I speak Latin, the demon responds to me in Latin. He has a horror of that language."

I know a couple of women from my past that I could have used his methods on, but it’s too late to help me now. I thought that a sure sign of possession was people’s head spinning around like in the movies?

And yeah, I too have a fear of people speaking Latin…