Exorcism, the effort to cleanse satanic influence from the human body and soul, has been a solemn ritual of the Catholic Church since medieval times, and it remains part of Catholic theology.

"I knew some people, yes, there was satanic influence," he said.

These Christians look for signs of satanic influence within families and encourage friends and colleagues to do the same.

Nevertheless, the Charismatic Movement continues its relentless search for evidence of satanic influence and there is a history of an active Charismatic ministry in Orkney.

If they suspect satanic influence amongst any group of people, they would also look with suspicion on anyone associated with that group, whether politically, socially, or on religious grounds.

Your witchery, your satanic influence, it floats past me like bubbles in the air, it means nothing to me.

Corruption, mental slavery, satanic influences: the whole bag of witch-hunt tricks.

The final struggle between the two comes as satanic influence is let loose with the emergence of Gog and Magog.

Once again, he represented the Liberals as the satanic influences obstructing his strivings on behalf of Canada.

He has called those measures modernist heresies caused by the "satanic influence of liberalism."