The First Trial

Well, it is a fact, Jamie, that 

I do tend to get involved with Things. 

 

JAMIE: 

Aye, you can say that again. 

Whenever there's any Trouble, he's in it right up to his neck. 

 

ZOE: 

But You've Helped People, Doctor. 

 

Yes, yes, but that's 

no excuse in their eyes. 

 

Malfeasance Tribunal -- 309906
In view of extenuating circimstances,
The Tribunal chose Banishment to Earth -- Sol-3, in Mutter's Spiral. 

 

(The War Lord and the guards vanish.) 

JAMIE:

Ah, well, that's put an end to them.

Well, we'll be on our way.

Come on, Doctor. Cheerio. 

 

(Jamie strolls over to the Tardis and straight into the forcefield which then envelopes him and Zoe.) 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh, switch this thing off. 

 

DOCTOR: 

Jamie, they are not going to let us go. 

 

JAMIE: 

What? After all you've done for them?

 

(The Doctor and two Time Lords leave.) 

 

ZOE: 

What are you going to do to him? 

 

TIME LORD 3: 

He must stand his trial. 

You will wait here. 

 

ZOE: 

Well, we want to go with The Doctor! 

Oh, let us out! 

 

JAMIE: 

Come on, let us out of this thing!

 

[Trial chamber]

 

TIME LORD: 

You have heard the charge against you, 

that you have repeatedly broken 

our most important law 

of non-interference in the affairs 

of other planets. 

 

What have you to say? 

Do you admit these actions? 

 

DOCTOR: 

I not only admit them, 

I am proud of them. 

 

While you have been content 

merely to observe the evil in the galaxy, 

I have been fighting against it. 

 

TIME LORD 3: 

It is not we who are on trial 

here, Doctor, it is you. 

 

DOCTOR: 

No, no, of course, you're 

above criticism, aren't you. 

 

TIME LORD: 

Do you admit that these actions were justified? 

 

DOCTOR: 

Yes, of course, I do. 

Give me a thought channel 

and I'll show you some of the evils 

I've been fighting against. 

 

(The Time Lords nod to each other.) 

 

DOCTOR: 

The Quarks, deadly robot servants 

of the cruel Dominators, 

they tried to enslave a peace loving race. 

 

Then there were the Yeti, more robot killers, 

instruments of an alien intelligence 

trying to take over the planet Earth. 

 

TIME LORD 3: 

All this is entirely irrelevant. 

 

DOCTOR: 

You asked me to justify my actions, 

I am doing so. 

 

Let me show you the Ice Warriors, 

cruel Martian invaders, they tried 

to conquer the Earth too. 

 

So did the Cybermen, 

half creature, half machine. 

 

But worst of all were The Daleks, 

a pitiless race of conquerors 

exterminating all who came up against them. 

 

All these evils I have fought 

while you have done nothing but observe. 

 

True, I am guilty of interference, 

just as you are guilty 

of failing to use your great powers 

to help those in need! 

 

TIME LORD: 

Is that all you have to say? 

 

DOCTOR: 

Well, isn't it enough? 

 

TIME LORD: 

Your defence has been heard 

and will be carefully considered, 

but you have raised difficult issues. 

 

We require time to 

think about them. 

 

You will be recalled 

when we have made 

our decision.

 

[SIDRAT bay]

 

JAMIE: 

Let us out! 

 

ZOE: 

We want to see the Doctor. 

Let us out of here! 

 

(The force field is turned off.) 

 

TIME LORD 2: 

Follow me. 

 

ZOE:

Where are we going? 

 

TIME LORD 2: 

We're going to send you home. 

Back you your own world 

and your own time. 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh no, not without The Doctor. 

 

TIME LORD 2: 

This is his world. 

He must stay here. 

 

ZOE:

Well, what's going to happen to him? 

 

TIME LORD 2:

He is awaiting the result of his trial. 

 

JAMIE:

Aye, well, I'm not going till I see him. 

 

ZOE:

Oh, please, can't we see the Doctor? 

 

TIME LORD 2:

You have become attached to him? 

 

JAMIE:

Aye, we've been through a lot, you know. 

 

ZOE:

Please let us see him. 

 

TIME LORD 2:

Come with me. 

 

JAMIE:

Aye.

 

[Trial chamber]

(The Doctor is reclining on the floor, playing clock patience.) 

DOCTOR: Jamie! Zoe! 

ZOE: Doctor! 

(They are stopped by a forcefield.) 

 

TIME LORD 2:

I've brought your friends to say goodbye. 

 

JAMIE:

Oh, switch this thing off. 

 

ZOE:

We can't say goodbye through a forcefield. 

 

TIME LORD 2:

Very well. I shall leave you together.

For a little while. 

 

DOCTOR:

Oh, thank you. 

(The forcefield disappears

and the Time Lord leaves.) 

 

DOCTOR:

Jamie! Zoe! 

 

ZOE:

Doctor! 

 

JAMIE:

What are they going to do to you? 

DOCTOR:

Oh, nothing much.

I expect they'll to make me listen to a long boring speech about being a good boy.

They like making speeches. 

 

ZOE:

Well, I think it's time you left them again. 

 

DOCTOR:

Well, that's easier said than done. 

 

JAMIE:

Oh come on, we've been in tighter situations than this. 

 

DOCTOR:

Well, you don't know the Time Lords, Jamie. I do. 

 

ZOE:

Oh, you're not just going to give up, are you, Doctor? 

 

JAMIE:

Of course he's not. Are you, Doctor, eh? 

 

DOCTOR:

Well. Oh, all right, but we may find it a bit difficult getting out of here. 

 

JAMIE: 

Hey, they've forgotten to switch 

that thing back on again. 

 

DOCTOR: 

Forgotten? 

 

ZOE: 

Well, that's all we need, isn't it? 

Now we can get away. 

 

DOCTOR:

Yes, yes, of course. 

 

JAMIE:

Come on! 

 

(The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe pick their way through an area of square pools of mist to )

 

[SIDRAT bay]

TIME LORD 3: 

There is no escape, Doctor. 

 

(Jamie runs up against a forcefield.) 

 

TIME LORD 3: 

It is time to say goodbye to your friends. 

 

ZOE: 

There must be something we can do? 

 

 

DOCTOR:

No Zoe, not this time. Well, goodbye, Jamie. 

 

JAMIE:

But Doctor surely we could -

 

DOCTOR: 

Goodbye, Jamie. 

 

JAMIE: 

I won't forget you, you know. 

 

DOCTOR: 

I won't forget you. 

Don't go blundering into 

too much trouble, will you? 

 

JAMIE: 

Oh, you're a fine one to talk. 

 

DOCTOR: 

Goodbye, Zoe. 

 

ZOE: 

Goodbye, Doctor. Will we ever meet again? 

 

DOCTOR: 

Again? Now, Zoe, you and I know,

time is relative, isn't it? 

(Jamie and Zoe are led to a SIDRAT. They wave and go inside. It dematerialises.) 

 

DOCTOR: 

They'll forget me, won't they? 

 

TIME LORD 2: 

Not entirely. 

They will be returned to a time

just before they went away with you. 

They will remember their first adventure 

with you, but nothing more. 

 

But come along. 

Your fate has been decided.

 

[The Wheel in Space]

(The Doctor watches on the trial chamber viewscreen as a confused Zoe walks down a corridor.) 

TANYA: Oh, Zoe. Zoe, are you all right? 

ZOE: Oh, yes. 

TANYA: Are the Doctor and Jamie gone? 

ZOE: Yes, I've just seen them off. 

TANYA: Well, we'd better get back to work, you know. There's a lot to be done if we're going to get the Wheel back to normal. Are you sure you're all right? 

ZOE: Oh, yes. I thought I'd forgotten something important, but it's nothing. 

TANYA: Right, come along then. 

ZOE: 

All right, I'm coming.

 

[Trial chamber]

 

(On the screen, Zoe looks back then the image fades.) 

 

DOCTOR: 

She'll be all right, won't she? 

 

TIME LORD: 

Of course. 

 

DOCTOR: 

What about Jamie? 

 

TIME LORD 3: 

Look.

 

[Culloden Moor]

(Pipes are skirling as a Redcoat aims his musket at Jamie's back. He turns and drops just as the soldier fires.) 

 

JAMIE: 

Try tae murder a McCrimmon, would ye?

Well, I'll show you! Creag an Tuire! 

 

(Jamie charges the Redcoat, swinging his sword while the man tries to reload. The soldier wisely gives up and flees.)

 

[Trial chamber]

TIME LORD: 

They will both continue their lives 

as if nothing had happened. 

 

DOCTOR: 

Yes, very efficient. 

Now, then -- what about me?

 

TIME LORD: 

We have accepted your plea, 

that there is Evil in The Universe 

that must be fought, 

and that you still have 

a part to play in that battle. 

 

DOCTOR: 

What? You mean that you're

 going to let me go free?

 

TIME LORD: 

Not entirely. 

We have noted your particular interest in the planet Earth --

The frequency of your visits must have given you 

special knowledge of that world and it's problems. 

 

DOCTOR: 

Yes, I suppose that's True --

Earth seems more vulnerable 

than others, yes. 

 

TIME LORD: 

For that reason you will be 

sent back to that planet. 

DOCTOR:

Oh — good. 

TIME LORD: 

....in exile. 

DOCTOR: 

In exile? 

 

TIME LORD: 

You will be sent to Earth in the twentieth century, 

and will remain there for as long as we deem proper, 

and for that period 

The Secret of the TARDIS 

will be taken from you.

 

DOCTOR: 

But you, you can't 

condemn me to exile on...

on one primitive planet, 

in one century in time! 

Besides, I'm known on the Earth. 

It might be very awkward for me. 

 

TIME LORD: 

Your appearance has changed before, 

it will change again, and 

that is part of the sentence.

 

DOCTOR: 

You can't just change what I look like 

without consulting me! 

TIME LORD: 

You will have an opportunity to choose your appearance. 

DOCTOR: 

Oh, well, that's not so bad…

But I warn you, I'm very particular.

 

TIME LORD: Here is your first choice. 

(A man with a big bushy beard, followed by other sketches.) 

DOCTOR: 

Oh he's too old! 

Well he's too fat, isn't he. 

No, he's too thin. 

That one's too young.

 Oh now, that won't do at all. 

It's ridiculous. 

TIME LORD: 

You're wasting time, Doctor. 

DOCTOR: 

It's not my fault, is it? 

Is this the best you can do? 

I've never seen such 

an incredible bunch. 

TIME LORD: 

Since you refuse to take the decision, 

the decision will be taken for you. 

DOCTOR: 

No, no, no, I never said that —

But I maintain I have the right 

to decide what I look like! 

It could be very important on the Earth. 

People on Earth attach a very great deal of importance —

(The Doctor's face is beginning to twist and change.) 

DOCTOR:

 Ah, what's happening? 

(We are treated to multiple images of Patrick gurning as they circle around.) 

DOCTOR: 

What's hap, what's happened? 

TIME LORD: 

The time has come for you to change your appearance, Doctor, and begin your exile.

DOCTOR: 

Is this some sort of joke? No, I refuse to be treated in —

 What are you doing? 

(The Doctor's face disappears.) 

DOCTOR: 

No! Stop, you're making me giddy! No, you can't do this to me! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Well... Would You Like Me to Give You a JOKE?

 SCULLY : (smiling)

It's an Alternate Reality -- 

'Fox' doesn't exist in coffee shops. 

MULDER :

No. It's A False Reality, Scully. 

Just like everything we've seen so far. 

Did Paul ever talk to you about having himself kidnapped?

You've got to remember who The Gettys ARE — Every time someone stays in the bathroom for too long,

someone makes A Joke

about being held for ransom.

Paul might have 

cracked A Joke

once or twice among friends...

There's That Word, again —

What word?

A "Joke."

You said you thought it was A Joke when it first happened.

Now you sound like that Policeman.

Whose side are you on, Mr. Chace?

I'm on My Own Side. Always.

And if this is A Joke, 

I'd like to make sure that 

I'm IN on it.

His Visions were Apocalyptic : 
A Pandemic was spreading across America. Hospitals were overwhelmed. People were panicking. A vaccine was needed. One that had to be created with a combination of human and alien DNA. And Jackson himself was the key. It ends with a UFO, hovering over the 14th Street Bridge. 

That's what he saw. 

 
So you think a shared vision means that it's more likely to come true? 
What if I didn't get a glimpse of The Future? 

What if I was just a receptacle for His Message to Me? Just like my dream to come here. 

Starbucks Barista :

( to Mulder, proffering a coffee. )

Hey, Bob.

SCULLY : (smiling)

It's an Alternate Reality -- 

'Fox' doesn't exist in coffee shops. 

MULDER :

No. It's A False Reality, Scully. 

Just like everything we've seen so far. 

I've been going over the forensics of the case. 

The Police Think, 

Jackson killed His Parents, then himself. 

But the spatter pattern tells me different. 

It Tells Me, 

There were Two Shooters. 

Her Body was moved after she was shot 

to make it Look Like There was One Shooter.

The Ritual of Chüd was A Battle of Wills 

and was The Only Way to defeat IT.

Contents

1 It (Novel)

2 It (1990)

3 It Chapter 2 (2019)

4 Later

5 Appearances

6 References

It (Novel)

Bill Denbrough first found the information about the Ritual when he found Night's Truth in Derry Public Library, where he also found It was a Glamour known to many cultures under many different names. The Ritual itself is from Himalayan belief, who recognized It as a sort of taelus. 

In the Himilayan tradition, a holyman and the taelus overlapped tongues, bit in to each other, and told riddles until one laughed despite the pain. If the taelus laughs first, it gets sent away for a hundred years, while if the man laughs first the taelus gets to eat the mans soul.[1]

THAT'S WHY HE'S A CLOWN.

As children, Bill is the only one to engage with It, being thrust toward the Macroverse, heading to the Deadlights, but his physical body remains put. He speeds by the Turtle, who only offers advice that "–you must help yourself, son," and "you've got to thrust your fists against the posts and still insist you see the ghosts[...] once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual."[2] Bill engages with it telepathically, biting his teeth into Its' tongue, saying "He Thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he see the ghosts" in his fathers voice repeatedly. Overall, the fight is one of the Losers optimism, imagination, unity, and belief over Its malice and anger. The Losers come out victorious, but ignore the Turtle's advice to make sure they finish the deal, and It escapes, which the Losers suspect but are not sure of.

As adults, Bill is the first to engage It again. However, without his childlike imagination, he is weaker in the battle. It taunts him, saying that the Turtle died some time ago. Bill 'misses' Its tongue, and Beverly calls out that something is wrong, It is laughing. Richie quickly realizes something is wrong and screams out in his Irish cop voice, catching Its tongue and being thrown into the universal sprawl with Bill. He saves Bill from the Deadlights, threatens It with his Voices, but they still struggle against it. As before, their bodies remain still in the real world, but Eddie hears Richie calling for help, and rather than enter with them, he uses his aspirator as before to seriously hurt It in the physical world, losing his arm in the process and dying of blood loss. In this time It is able to escape further into her lair, dropping eggs along the way that Ben stays to crush, as Beverly remains with Eddie's body. Reluctantly Richie leaves Eddie and Bill leaves Audra to go further after It needing to ensure It dies this time. Finding It, they hit It with their collective belief and love and childhood nostalgia along with the power of the Other[3]. Richie is knocked out, Bill crushes Its heart between his hands, and carries Richie, who he believes may be dead, back to the other Losers.

It (1990)

Bill Denbrough first battled It with the Ritual of Chüd with advice that was given to him by Maturin. The ritual was a psychic battle in which the two forces dueled with their wits. The children believed that the metal silver had supernatural abilities, as seen in numerous monster movies. Because the children believed it, the silver became real and was a chief weapon that was used in the ritual as children. Because Beverly was good with a slingshot, the Losers' Club injured It the first time when Beverly shot a chunk of silver into Its skull. The Losers thought that they killed It, but weren't sure, so they made a pact to return to Derry should It ever return. It was finally destroyed in the second Ritual of Chüd by the adult Bill, Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh, Eddie Kaspbrak (he was killed by It) and Ben Hanscom.

It Chapter 2 (2019)

Here Mike Hanlon discovers the Ritual of Chüd himself by visiting with local Native American tribes as an adult. The Ritual involves burning tokens special to all those in the Ritual to expose Its true form as the Deadlights and trapping them in a vessel Mike stole from the tribe. Unlike the novel, the ritual is unsuccessful, as the Native Americans that attempted to use it to trap It failed and were brutally slaughtered. Mike withholds this truth from his friends, believing that the tribe was unsuccessful because they had not truly faced their fears and felt that his own group stood a far better chance at survival and victory. The Losers' performing of the Ritual exposes the Deadlights, but fails to actually contain It and are forced to back off. Taking the form of a half-spider/half-Pennywise hybrid, It separates the Losers to go through personal trials, overcoming each together giving them strength. However, this exposes Richie to the Deadlights causing Eddie to attack It with a spear, dealing a serious blow. It retaliates, killing him over Richie, but not before Eddie is able to tell the Losers they have to make It small to kill it. The Losers succeed in doing this, convincing each other that Pennywise is small by insulting It, until all the remaining Losers crush Its heart together, finally killing the ancient evil.

Later

Jamie Conklin is introduced to the Ritual of Chüd by former neighbor Professor Martin Burkett, whom Jamie confides in about his continued "haunting" by the revenant of deceased bomber Kenneth "Thumper" Therriault[4]. Jamie, confused and frightened by the fact that months pass and Therriault's specter refuses to "pass over," and indeed appears to be getting stronger instead of fading, explains his predicament to Professor Burkett, who speculatively posits that perhaps Therriault's soul has been infested by a demon since his death. Burkett, though lightly skeptical of Jamie's experience, suggests that there might not be a way to get rid of the unnamed entity residing in Therriault, but that Jamie can instead conquer it.

Though Burkett is a professor of English and European Literature, he claims to know much of the mystic arts through his consumption of supernatural literature, and espouses on the Tibetan tribal ritualistic tradition to Jamie. A present-day Jamie, narratively reflecting on the incident some ten years in his past, has since researched the ritual for an anthropology paper in college, and fact-checks Burkett. Burkett claims the Ritual was practiced by a series of Tibetan and Nepalese Buddhists, who used it as a meditative aid "to achieve a sense of perfect nothingness and the resulting state of serenity and spiritual clarity," which Jamie confirms, and that it was also used in combating demons, both mental and supernatural ("a gray area," according to Jamie). Burkett suggests the Ritual for this reason - theoretically it will be of use to Jamie whether or not Therriault's entity actually exists. Burkett then claims (later refuted by Jamie) that Chüd was commonly used against yetis, who are said to haunt their observers to their deaths, unless they engage and best the beast in a Ritual.

Despite Jamie's obvious disgust, Burkett explains the binding of tongues and subsequent battle of wills, which he surmises happens telepathically in order to not disrupt the physical link, explaining that the first to withdraw loses all power over the winner. Jamie has qualms about engaging Therriault in the Ritual, unsure if he will be given an opportunity to get close enough without luring the spirit and potentially harming himself, which he expresses facetiously, but Burkett explains the tongue-biting aspect is meant to be symbolic, comparing it to the Christian Eucharistic tradition. He also compares the ritual to other ceremonial wartime greetings, such as the Māori haka, Japanese kamikaze mizu no sakazuki, an ancient Egyptian tradition of exchanging forehead strikes between members of warring houses before the formal battle, and Japanese sumo Chirichozu. Burkett says all these traditions have the same meaning, which is a combative meeting of enemies with an expectation that a winner will be declared.

Jamie surmises later that perhaps the Ritual was already in motion, and that every confrontation with Therriault had been an engagement of wills, but he follows Burkett's advice and engages Therriault in a Chüd soon after[5]. During the ritual (in which Jamie simply grabs the entity full-bodied and refuses to let go), he experiences the entity's singular deadlight, implying that he was fighting a Glamour. Jamie describes the experience as a trembling of the world like a plucked guitar string, perceptible at low levels even to passers-by who unknowingly came near the spirit, but which increases to near-unbearable levels with proximity and duration. The Glamour attempts to bargain with Jamie throughout, but Jamie is familiar with the entity's ability (distinct from that of a "normal" spirit) to make untrue claims when unprompted- though it abides by the spirit rule of being unable to lie when directly questioned. For this reason Jamie persists until the Glamour agrees not only to cease haunting him, but instead to be haunted by Jamie- that is, to remain at his beck and call. Jamie also compels the Glamour to admit to being afraid of Jamie before releasing it. The Ritual occurred outside of linear time (as remaining by the elevator doors remaining open), and caused a localized power surge and minor explosions upon its completion. Though Jamie felt invigorated afterwards, these manifestations of the Glamour on the physical world make him believe that it drew power from him, as well, and was no longer bound to the purely incorporeal nature of Therriault's spirit.

Appearances

It

It (film)

Later

References

 Part 4, Chapter 13, section 3, PG 683

 Chapter22, section 2, PG 1071

 Chapter 23, section 2

 Chapter 37, PG 145

 Chapter 43, PG 156

WE Just Have to Figure-out A Way to MOBILISE It

There are 

Three Physical Gateways 

and The Three are One.

This is The Place 

from which 

The Masters came. 

Here, A Great Empire 

once stood, 

Ruling All Known Space.

“I remind myself of A Navajo Story — 

Twin War Gods 

come to Their Father, 

seeking Magic and Weapons 

to eliminate 

The Monsters of The World.

My Hope is the same for You, 

and that We might reconcile 

the differences between Us.

Your Loving Father.”

Ghostbusters 2 (1989) - No Dent, A Symbol

RAY: 

(half-heartedly)

Pull 'em.

EGON: 

Full neutronas.

RAY : 

Let's cook!

They open fire on The Shell but it becomes apparent 

they are shooting in vain.

RAY : 

Save 'em.

The crowds boo and hiss at them.

PERSON: 

C'mon!

PERSON: 

Aw, c'mon Ghostbusters!

EGON : 

That slime mold is PULSING with Evil. 

It would take a TREMENDOUS amount of Positive Energy to Crack That Shell 

and I seriously DOUBT 

there's enough Goodwill left 

in This Town to DO it.

Ray plants his face on Ecto-1A's hood in frustration 

then stands back up.

RAY : 

You know, 

I just Can't Believe Things have gotten 

So BAD in This City 

that there's 

No Way BACK. 

I mean, sure, it's Dirty, it's Crowded, it's Polluted, it's Noisy 

and there's People all around 

who'd just as soon step on your face 

as look at you. 

But Come on! 

There's gotta be a FEW Sparks of Sweet Humanity 

left in This Burned-out 'burg 

and WE just have to figure out 

A Way to MOBILISE it.

EGON : 

He's Right. 

We need Something that 

EVERYONE 

in This Town 

can GET Behind --

We Need... A Symbol.

They all started looking downwards.

RAY: 

Something that appeals to 

The Best in Each and 

Every One of Us.

Egon squats down.

EGON: 

Something GOOD.

WINSTON: 

Something DECENT.

VENKMAN: 

Something PURE.

The camera POV shifts down to Ecto-1a's license plate. 

It features An Image of 

The Statue of Liberty.

“Don’t Look for it, Taylor — 

You may not Like 

What You Find….”

Evening. Liberty Island. The Ghostbusters stare at The Statue.

VENKMAN: 

Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

RAY : 

Wonder what?

VENKMAN: 

Whether she's naked under that toga. 

She's French -- You know that.

VENKMAN: 

Oh darn it. Oh, darn it.

Vigo raises Oscar in His Arms. 

Oscar cries.

VIGO: 

NOW We Become ONE --

"Auld Lang Syne" can be heard from The Skylight. 

Vigo recoils in Pain.

RAY : 

Where's that singing coming from?

WINSTON: 

It's The People OUTSIDE.

The crowds of people outside the Manhattan Museum of Art celebrate New Years TOGETHER.

Louis passes through The Crowd and makes His Way to The Front. 

The Statue of Liberty is on her back on The Street.

LOUIS : 

Sorry folks! Excuse me. 

Ghostbusters. Wow. 

I'm Here with You Guys.

Louis readies his particle thrower.

EGON : 

He's Weakening! 

The singing is neutralizing The Slime!

RAY: 

I can move!

Peter hobbles forward.

DANA : 

Oscar!

Vigo is forcibly propelled back into The Painting. 

Peter catches Oscar just in time.

DANA : 

Oh, sweetie.

EGON : 

He's back in The Painting!

VENKMAN: 

All right, go find a shady spot.

Ray turns towards The Painting and locks eyes with Vigo.

VENKMAN:

Vigi, Vigi, Vigi. 

You have been a BAD monkey!

Ray suddenly walks up to The Painting and stares at it.

EGON : 

Ray? We'd like to Shoot The Monster, 

Could you move, please?

VENKMAN: 

Ray?

WINSTON : 

Ray?

PETER, EGON, WINSTON: 

Ray?!!!

Ray turns around to reveal he is possessed by Vigo 

and transmogrified to resemble his True Ghost Form.

VIGO: 

No! I, Ray, am Vigo, shall rule the earth! 

Be gone, you pitiful half-men!

VENKMAN: 

Now!

Peter and Egon fire at The Painting. 

Winston slimes Ray.

At the same time -- in front of an ELECTRIFIED Crowd of THOUSANDS -- Louis fires on The Slime Shell.

Ray drops to the ground as Vigo is ejected out of His Body and back into The Painting as The Giant Floating Head. 

They continue to fire on him. 

Vigo is drenched in the positively charged psychomagnotheric ectoplasm.

VIGO: 

No!

Vigo is sent spiraling further into The Painting until there 

is an explosion and a bright white light is projected. 

The Slime Shell disintegrates 

and shoots up into the sky. 

The people cheer. Several congratulate Louis.

LOUIS : 

I did it! I did it!

MAN: 

That was great! I loved it!

LOUIS: 

I'm a Ghostbuster!

Bill Denbrough first found the information about the Ritual when he found Night's Truth in Derry Public Library, where he also found It was a Glamour known to many cultures under many different names. The Ritual itself is from Himalayan belief, who recognized It as a sort of taelus. In the Himilayan tradition, a holyman and the taelus overlapped tongues, bit in to each other, and told riddles until one laughed despite the pain. If the taelus laughs first, it gets sent away for a hundred years, while if the man laughs first the taelus gets to eat the mans soul.

As children, Bill is the only one to engage with It, being thrust toward the Macroverse, heading to the Deadlights, but his physical body remains put. He speeds by the Turtle, who only offers advice that "–you must help yourself, son," and "you've got to thrust your fists against the posts and still insist you see the ghosts[...] once you get into cosmological shit like this, you got to throw away the instruction manual."

Bill engages with it telepathically, biting his teeth into Its' tongue, saying "He Thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he see the ghosts" in his fathers voice repeatedly. Overall, the fight is one of the Losers optimism, imagination, unity, and belief over Its malice and anger. The Losers come out victorious, but ignore The Turtle's advice to make sure they finish The Deal, and It escapes, which the Losers suspect but are not sure of.

As adults, Bill is the first to engage It again. However, without his childlike imagination, he is weaker in the battle. It taunts him, saying that the Turtle died some time ago. 

Bill 'misses' Its tongue, and Beverly calls out that something is wrong, It is laughing. Richie quickly realizes something is wrong and screams out in his Irish cop voice, catching Its tongue and being thrown into the universal sprawl with Bill. He saves Bill from the Deadlights, threatens It with His Voices, but they still struggle against it. As before, their bodies remain still in the real world, but Eddie hears Richie calling for help, and rather than enter with them, he uses his aspirator as before to seriously hurt It in the physical world, losing his arm in the process and dying of blood loss. In this time It is able to escape further into her lair, dropping eggs along the way that Ben stays to crush, as Beverly remains with Eddie's body. 

Reluctantly Richie leaves Eddie and Bill leaves Audra to go further after It needing to ensure It dies this time. 

Finding It, they hit It with their collective belief and love and childhood nostalgia along with the power of The Other[3]. Richie is knocked out, Bill crushes Its heart between his hands, and carries Richie, who he believes may be dead, back to the other Losers.

It (1990)

Bill Denbrough first battled It with the Ritual of Chüd with advice that was given to him by Maturin. The ritual was a psychic battle in which the two forces dueled with their wits. The children believed that the metal silver had supernatural abilities, as seen in numerous monster movies. Because the children believed it, the silver became real and was a chief weapon that was used in the ritual as children. Because Beverly was good with a slingshot, the Losers' Club injured It the first time when Beverly shot a chunk of silver into Its skull. The Losers thought that they killed It, but weren't sure, so they made a pact to return to Derry should It ever return. 

It was finally destroyed in the second Ritual of Chüd by the adult Bill, Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh, Eddie Kaspbrak (he was killed by It) and Ben Hanscom.

It Chapter 2 (2019)

Here Mike Hanlon discovers the Ritual of Chüd himself by visiting with local Native American tribes as an adult. The Ritual involves burning tokens special to all those in the Ritual to expose Its true form as the Deadlights and trapping them in a vessel Mike stole from the tribe. Unlike the novel, the ritual is unsuccessful, as the Native Americans that attempted to use it to trap It failed and were brutally slaughtered. 

Mike withholds this truth from his friends, believing that the tribe was unsuccessful because they had not truly faced their fears and felt that his own group stood a far better chance at Survival and Victory. The Losers' performing of the Ritual exposes the Deadlights, but fails to actually contain It and are forced to back off. 

Taking the form of a half-spider/half-Pennywise hybrid, It separates the Losers to go through personal trials, overcoming each together giving them strength. 

However, this exposes Richie to the Deadlights causing Eddie to attack It with a spear, dealing a serious blow. It retaliates, killing him over Richie, but not before Eddie is able to tell the Losers they have to make It small to kill it. The Losers succeed in doing this, convincing each other that Pennywise is small by insulting It, until all the remaining Losers crush Its heart together, finally killing the ancient evil.

Later

Jamie Conklin is introduced to the Ritual of Chüd by former neighbor Professor Martin Burkett, whom Jamie confides in about his continued "haunting" by the revenant of deceased bomber Kenneth "Thumper" Therriault[4]. Jamie, confused and frightened by the fact that months pass and Therriault's specter refuses to "pass over," and indeed appears to be getting stronger instead of fading, explains his predicament to Professor Burkett, who speculatively posits that perhaps Therriault's soul has been infested by a demon since his death. Burkett, though lightly skeptical of Jamie's experience, suggests that there might not be a way to get rid of the unnamed entity residing in Therriault, but that Jamie can instead conquer it.

Though Burkett is a professor of English and European Literature, he claims to know much of the mystic arts through his consumption of supernatural literature, and espouses on the Tibetan tribal ritualistic tradition to Jamie. A present-day Jamie, narratively reflecting on the incident some ten years in his past, has since researched the ritual for an anthropology paper in college, and fact-checks Burkett. Burkett claims the Ritual was practiced by a series of Tibetan and Nepalese Buddhists, who used it as a meditative aid "to achieve a sense of perfect nothingness and the resulting state of serenity and spiritual clarity," which Jamie confirms, and that it was also used in combating demons, both mental and supernatural ("a gray area," according to Jamie). Burkett suggests the Ritual for this reason - theoretically it will be of use to Jamie whether or not Therriault's entity actually exists. Burkett then claims (later refuted by Jamie) that Chüd was commonly used against yetis, who are said to haunt their observers to their deaths, unless they engage and best the beast in a Ritual.

Despite Jamie's obvious disgust, Burkett explains the binding of tongues and subsequent battle of wills, which he surmises happens telepathically in order to not disrupt the physical link, explaining that the first to withdraw loses all power over the winner. Jamie has qualms about engaging Therriault in the Ritual, unsure if he will be given an opportunity to get close enough without luring the spirit and potentially harming himself, which he expresses facetiously, but Burkett explains the tongue-biting aspect is meant to be symbolic, comparing it to the Christian Eucharistic tradition. He also compares the ritual to other ceremonial wartime greetings, such as the Māori haka, Japanese kamikaze mizu no sakazuki, an ancient Egyptian tradition of exchanging forehead strikes between members of warring houses before the formal battle, and Japanese sumo Chirichozu. Burkett says all these traditions have the same meaning, which is a combative meeting of enemies with an expectation that a winner will be declared.

Jamie surmises later that perhaps the Ritual was already in motion, and that every confrontation with Therriault had been an engagement of wills, but he follows Burkett's advice and engages Therriault in a Chüd soon after[5]. During the ritual (in which Jamie simply grabs the entity full-bodied and refuses to let go), he experiences the entity's singular deadlight, implying that he was fighting a Glamour. Jamie describes the experience as a trembling of the world like a plucked guitar string, perceptible at low levels even to passers-by who unknowingly came near the spirit, but which increases to near-unbearable levels with proximity and duration. The Glamour attempts to bargain with Jamie throughout, but Jamie is familiar with the entity's ability (distinct from that of a "normal" spirit) to make untrue claims when unprompted- though it abides by the spirit rule of being unable to lie when directly questioned. For this reason Jamie persists until the Glamour agrees not only to cease haunting him, but instead to be haunted by Jamie- that is, to remain at his beck and call. Jamie also compels the Glamour to admit to being afraid of Jamie before releasing it. The Ritual occurred outside of linear time (as remaining by the elevator doors remaining open), and caused a localized power surge and minor explosions upon its completion. Though Jamie felt invigorated afterwards, these manifestations of the Glamour on the physical world make him believe that it drew power from him, as well, and was no longer bound to the purely incorporeal nature of Therriault's spirit