Dealing with possession is more “run of the mill” than in the 1974 film The Exorcist

Reading a Harry Potter novel or dabbling with Ouija boards may seem harmless, but beware — you could be granting the Devil access to your body.

Two of the Catholic Church’s expert exorcists in Britain have warned that a fascination with the supernatural and a fading of Christian practices have led to an increase in those asking priests to exorcise a demonic presence from them or their homes.

They told The Times that alcoholism and pornography weakened defences against the Devil and his henchmen, but said that exorcists had to distinguish between diabolical influence and people with mental health problems, who had to be referred to doctors.

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Both men are English priests and resident exorcists in a Catholic diocese. Each of England and Wales’s 22