Just in time for Halloween, a jail nurse in Oklahoma is accused of trying an exorcism on a  combative inmate.

Here in my home state of Oklahoma, a longtime investigative reporter for The Oklahoman reports the story.

Just to be clear, this news actually has nothing to do with Tuesday's holiday.

But it did break today:

A nurse has been banned from working at the Oklahoma County jail after witnesses reported she began an exorcism rather than help a combative inmate.

The inmate died the next day.

The nurse, Linda Herlong Jackson, 67, of Oklahoma City, denies the accusation.

"Oh, brother," she told The Oklahoman. "No. ... I didn't do an exorcism."

Detention officers reported the nurse said, "I revoke you demons,'' as the inmate thrashed around and screamed, a sheriff's investigator said. One witness reported the nurse had asked first if anyone would mind if she performed an exorcism.

A sheriff's lieutenant stopped the exorcism after arriving and being told what was going on, the investigator said.

Sheriff P.D. Taylor banned the nurse Oct. 20.

At the end of the story, readers hear from the nurse again: