Thanks for all your answers. It gave me more insight about why a child's document would say 'exorcism'. I had first even thought that it could have been a seisure or something they saw in a child and mistook it for being 'possessed by the devil' since they wouldn't have known much about medical conditions like that in that era. But your explanations made alot of sense.
On Tuesday, November 5, 2013 12:10:21 AM UTC-5, Terri wrote: > I found it creepy by interesting that in a few baptism records I needed > for children in Ginetes, the word 'exorcismos' appeared. This does mean > exorcisms by a priest were performed right? or does this word have ANOTHER > meaning in Portuguese? I've attached two records below. > > Terri Santos > Researching Agua d'Alto, Agua de Pau, Ginetes, Vila Franca do Campo Sao > Pedro and Sao Miguel > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
