Demon Slaying is...An oddity, made popular by contemporary sci- and fantasy fiction. Demons were more typically censured or rebuked, allegedly, this being done by priests and a practice that continues up to today. In some ecclestial academies of the present, "excorcism" (as what rebuking or dispossessing a spirit is commonly called) is an actual, apllicable course.
If you want to get technical on actually slaying a demon however, the techniques usually varied only slightly, the components dependant on what type of demon or demoniac you are facing (witches, vampires, the possessed): Such as driving a stake through the heart, cutting of the head and burying it elsewhere after burning the body, appeasing the dead with a sacrifice so they do not return, etc.
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