Banishing a spirit

[famafraternitatis]

Hello everyone. In my first post I wrote I'm an amateur comic artist, here also for some "professional consultancy". Well here we go, I'm thinking about a short story I want to draw, revolving around an evil ghost. I always found the topic quite interesting, and I read a lot about spirits in the past, and read some more after I got this weird idea, but I still can't find what I'm looking for.
All I can find in every book or website is that, after all the chanting, smudging and so on, if you want to get rid of a ghost the only way to do it is basically convincing the spirit to leave, just by talking. There is no documentation about what to do if the ghost simply doesn't want to leave, and maybe is extremely dangerous and violent. I've read that sometimes in the past people (over)used exorcism for everything, but I'm not really convinced that it is the proper procedure. Is it?
Maybe I can't find anything about it because no "real" ghot has never gone really berserk, but I'm dealing with fiction here.
So basically let's say that (in my story) I have an extremely violent and dangerous ghost, that is putting my life in danger in the immeidate circumstances, and I need something (possibly drammatical enough to fit in a comic) to cast it away, or force it to "the light", imprison it (no containment units ) or just tear it apart. Exorcism? Circle or glyphs? Artifacts? A spell of any branch of magic?
Any suggestion welcome! thanyou

[Bara Mortath]

I could see several ways of getting rid of such a spirit, the final method would depend greatly on what manner of ghost it was.
If it was attached to some object for instance getting the object out of the area would be a quick simple solution, burning it, or submerging it in running water, or in some other fashon ridding it of it' etheric charge or destroying it would be more permanent variations of that theme.
If the entity was attatched to a person then a full on banishing or exorcism might be required. Banishings come in many different flavors, everything from the equivelent of a spiritual shower, to a full on nuklear strike, so it's probable that one would work in the first situation as well. You could also bind the entity to an object and burn/submerge/dispose of the object as mentioned above (I've done that, it worked like a charm. No pun intended)Alternativly, one could evoke a stronger entity and have that dispose of the unwelcome one.
If you're wanting a less ritualised disposal method then attacking the entity on it's own plane and forcibly evicting it would also be an option, this could be done either through astral or etheric projection, or direct energy manipulation from the physical.

After any of that enacting some form of ward would be a really good idea, but that's probably beyond what you really wanted to know.

All in all there's really not a whole lot that an entity can do if someone really wants it out of an area, it may come back after a while if the warding fades, or it's bonds break (and if it was a lousy ward, or weak bonds it may only be pissed off, think of it as some one comming up and pushing you deliberatly, or putting you in a headlock) but it can almost always be pushed back out.

[famafraternitatis]

Thankyou so much, you've been very very helpful! I think I'll go for the binding+burning thing too, it seems dramatic enough and exactly what I was looking for. I'll look up for some documentation about it, thanks again!

[darkwolf]

Another thing, for attachment to objects, is completely submerging the object in coarse rock salt. That can sometimes work. But yeah, banishing/exorcism really does depend upon a number of factors.

[Kath]

hmm, could always go with "GTFO or perish!", or for a more subtle touch, just kinda put your foot on the throat of the being's free will, and apply increasing pressure until they get the idea. or just feed it to something. really there's 101 ways to 'get rid of' an unwelcome presence. I always do start with something more like "hello there! please pardon me for being a poor host, but I'd like privacy now if it's not too much bother"

I don't suppose any of this is particularly book-friendly though.

[Greenjackdavey]

A bout of Home made pickling, especially something spicy like a kashmir chutney, with plenty of salt and vinegar, usually works for me but it is pretty indiscriminate and clears the house of everything, wanted and unwanted. So, then you have to do the washing up all by youself.

The good thing about this method is most times the unwanted sprite does not even realise you are doing it deliberately. Unlike an open attack to which it might retaliate.
Also, just the use of strong natural sunlight, especially on an object it is attached to, is much underrated.

[ArcaneSpells]

Since you're writing fiction, I think the best option is to just use your imagination and write whatever is the most fun to read. Because it's very hard to find information on this subject that isn't false and even if you find it, you won't know whether it is for real or not.