the born again Christian just needs to shut up its a movie it wouldn't be a movie if it didn't have confusion had they done it the way its believed to be it would be no movie and anyway did anybody ever think that this witch or demon wasn't a slave who hated them not one person brought up the fact that these people are slave owners most slave owners or people that are related to those who were slave owners have a lot of demons after them i don't think it was anything other then a demon who latched itself to this family because of the slavery that or it could've been a slave that died that put a curse on them u treat people like shit u get what comes with that