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An exorcist has described a chilling encounter with what she said was a demon with "rows of teeth" leering at her as she lay petrified in her bed.

Sharing her experience on the Talk is Jericho podcast, professional exorcist Rachel Stavis recalled how the feminine demon pounced on her in the middle of the night.

She said: “I was asleep and I woke up because there was an entity that was specific to the location – to New Orleans.

"It was something that I’d never seen exactly like this before. And it was this female figure and it opened its mouth and it had rows and rows and rows of teeth."

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The creature's shark-like teeth were not the only thing creepy about it. The demon was also physically touching her, she added.

Rachel said: "It was on me. And here’s where things get nuttier. Out of the side of the room, out of the darkness, comes this man, a huge man with long dark hair that was over his face.

"And he took this thing, put it into his hands and walked backwards into the shadows. And it was gone."

The experience was unnerving despite her experience as an exorcist, Rachel admitted, especially when she realised that there was no power and she couldn't turn on a light.

She said: "I sat up and, in this bedroom, there’s a night light – it’s one of those projector night lights where it shows on the ceiling an aquarium of fish – it was not on.

"And I was like, ok, and I had my significant other there and she was like ‘I just saw this thing with teeth and a face’.

"That’s when we noticed that in the entire block all the power was out and the next day we checked and the power went out at the exact moment that those things happened."

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This comes after a pastor described a woman suffering from demonic possession as so supernaturally-strong that it took nine men to hold her down during an exorcism.

And a teenager who regrets experimenting with Wicca said a church leader saved her from a demon that would scratch her and leave "dead flesh smells" in her room.

Meanwhile, a Catholic exorcist said the practice is often "just like in Hollywood films" and has encountered one victim who floated on the ceiling for six hours.