Does exorcism work?

I know this is an old post but i kind of find it interesting.The mind is very powerful it can make you sick when you are healthy and heal you when you are sick.I think exorcism works in the same way, as magic does if you believe in it it can have a placebo effect. There is a story when an elderly woman came to a hospital in terrible pain screaming it is the root that is causing this, and that she wants her legs cut off, to stop the pain. Most of them dint know what she was talking about but one attendant knew she was talking about voodoo curse so they had an idea to do an un cursing ritual and it helped the woman the pain was gone. I dont believe there was any curse just the womans mind believing so strongly she was cursed that the mind manifested pain in the womans legs, and when the ritual was done she believed it worked and her mind stopped manifesting her pain.

Oh come now buzz the next thing you are going to say that christianity is the only religion who had a magic boy that died then came back to life.Buddha battled daemons and cast them out of himselfMuslims cast out daemons using the Koran.Pagans as in wiccans have that little symbol you know the pentagram it is used for protection against daemons. And they do have casting out daemons rituals.The Hindus have exorcisms too the basic casting out rituals are preformed using the mantra and the yanja.Casting out and protecting form evils is kind of the brand mark of every religion, as are miracles and any other bullshit they cane make you believe.

So the woman was old in tribal standards that would be 60 right ? So the priest or should i say strange withe man with magic powers in tribal understanding was screaming at a 60 year old shaman woman till she got a hart attack. Then bent the event in saying the good lord Jesus saved them from a daemon. Because shrinking heads of your enemies is so fare worse then burning them on a pyre if they dont convert, and i know christians dont do that anymore they came out of the dark ages those tribes dint get out of the stonage yet. To bad some die during the exorcisms right, but afterall the torture and pain they go trough when the right is prefformed they go to a better place right its not like murder or anything like that. 6 months for torture and murder its good to be a priest and doing gods work right better then putting her on meds and potentially give her a normal life.

So when the exorcist is showering the victim with holy watter and beating him over the head with a cross thats the wrong way to do it Umm what evil phenomena when someone is mentally ill ???