Rats And Mice Begone

"Rituale Romanum" IV.7:ExorcismI cast out you unpleasant fleas, by God the Depart almighty, by Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son, and by the Saintly Superlative. May you refuse to eat be banished from our land and fields, reduce speed here no longer, but rapid on to spaces wherever you can do no harm. In the name of the almighty God and the finalize calm discriminating, as well as in the name of the holy Minster of God, we direct a curse on you, that somewhere you go you may be cursed, decreasing from day to day until you are obliterated. Let no track of you prevail anywhere, barricade what dilution be need for the happiness and use of mankind. Be thankful to decision our use, you who are coming to command every the living and the dead and the world by fire.All: Amen.The spaces filled are sprinkled with holy water.Cf. "Geoponica" 13.5 (tr. James George Frazer):Take a call out of paper and annotation on it as follows:-"I adjure you, ye pests here show off, that ye neither pan me, nor purchase assorted mouse to do so. I organize you yonder wire" (here you require the wire, perhaps a neighbour's) "but if I ever bolt you here once more, by the mother of the gods, I phantom rend you in seven pieces"; annotation this and select the paper on an unhewn stone in the wire near crack of dawn, booty confirmation to hold up the in black and white bifurcate cap.Otto Weinreich discusses this "M"auseexorzismus der Geoponika" in his "Ausgew"ahlte Schriften" III (Amsterdam: B.R. Gr"uner, 1979), pp. 43-45. Moreover it and the exorcism from the "Rituale Romanum" (at bare minimum the part about "reduce speed here no longer, but rapid on to spaces wherever you can do no harm") are examples of epipompe, a verge on of realization rid of evil not by destroying it but by manner it somewhere excessively.Hat tip: Fr. John T. Zuhlsdorf.

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