Spectral Evidence Of A Person's Body By Jacqueline Cardin

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Jacqueline Cardin, there is a statement that you made tat I disagree with you to some extent. The quote in question is the following, “Spectral evidence of witchcraft involved basically a deal with the devil”. Although this statement is true in some regards it is also false in others. The article does mention that spectral evidence is a pack with Satan that allows it to take the persons appearance, but the article also mentions that in some circumstance the devil could impersonate an innocent person in order to bring the proceeding to a stop (Craker, W. 1997, pg.332, & 343). One last thing, you wrote, and I quote “This deal allows the devil to take over a person's body” as I understood it the devil did not take over the person’s body, but instead

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