 Examples survive from ancient times showing how a statue of a god, propitiated with offerings, brought the release of a possessed person.In modern times the person who presides over such a ritual is called a shaykh and, similar to ancient practices, offerings are made to the spirit which has taken up residence in the person.An alternative way is a ceremony called the butadjiyya, in which words are recited from the Quran with the patient immersed in the smoke of incense.