And those that did in reality make such pacts? Whether Satan exists is irrelevant. There have been many witches throughout history who knowingly made pacts an

And those that did in reality make such pacts? Whether Satan exists is irrelevant. There have been many witches throughout history who knowingly made pacts and believed themselves to have powers. Alison Device is the classic. She cursed a man. That man heard her curse and almost immediately had what we today would call a stroke, likely in part induced by the panic/fear of that curse. She believed she had powers. He believed she had powers. She exercised those powers and a man died. Call it a placebo effect if you want, but she was a witch who proved able to kill a man with a curse.