Man’s first efforts at defense were directed against the ghosts. As the ages passed, the living began to devise methods of resisting the dead. Many techniques were developed for frightening ghosts and driving them away, among which may be cited the following:
Close in meaning, found by a language model. A match does not mean the teachings are the same.
now were haunted by monstrous apparitions, and now were paralyzed by their soul’s surrendering; for sudden and unexpected fear came upon them.
For when the dead had already fallen in heaps one upon another, he intervened and stopped the wrath, and cut off its way to the living.
For those who promised to drive away terrors and disorders from a sick soul, these were sick with a ludicrous fearfulness.