Case file · High strangeness
The Bentresh stela: an exorcism by statue
A stela from the temple of Khonsu at Karnak says Ramesses II sent a statue of the god Khonsu to a distant land to drive a spirit out of a possessed princess called Bentresh.
300 BCE · 25.72, 32.66 · status: legend
The account
After the spirit left, the foreign prince kept the statue for years until a dream sent it home. The stela was probably carved in the Persian or Ptolemaic period to promote the temple.