I talked with the pastoral staff about possible demon possession. They raised a lot of questions and expressed serious doubts about the situation. It just seemed to strange for all of us. They felt I could handle the initial contact so I proceeded on my own.
Once we were settled in the house I met with Sarah (not her real name). I wanted her to tell me what she perceived was happening. We met in our home so Della would also be present, or at least be able to hear. Because of the kids she wasn’t always in the room, but she was listening.
Sarah and I sat in our living room, she on the sofa and I had pulled the matching chair to face her. She elaborated on her mother’s story, and indicated it was happening nearly every night. Books would fall off her shelves for no reason and at times fly at her as though they were trying to strike her. She could hear voices from her stuff animals telling her to hurt people, or that certain people were planning to hurt her. She had gotten rid of most glass things in her room as many were broken from falling or being thrown. Sometimes things would just float. She told of a time when her blanket rose off her body and floated to the side of the room where it fell into a heap. She continued for nearly an hour giving very specific details of strange things that had happened.
When she seemed to be finished I began asking questions. What time of night were these things occurring? What was her frame of mind? Had she ate anything the may have upset her? Had anything happened at school or with her parents to upset her? I probed friendships, contacts, teachers and anything I could think of at school. I wanted to know about her health both physical and mental. Were there doctors she would give permission to speak to me? I specially went after who else had seen these things. What concerned me most was that neither her mother nor father had seen any of this actually happen. She indicated some friends from school as seen these occurrences, so the questions was it an over active imagination. I seriously wondered.
I prayed with her after our meeting and asked her to pray. She said she couldn’t. Again, could she not pray or would she not pray. I drove her back home and had a look at the room. It was very neat and tidy. I briefly talked with her mother about the last incident and she said it had been a few days ago. I asked if she had ever seen any of these things or heard voices. She said the incidents never lasted very long. By the time she would get into the room, Sarah had the covers over her head was screaming and things were strewn all over the room. She has heard strange voices several times but has never seen anyone in the room. She did not recognize any of the voices.
I went home not really sure what was happening or what was real. The voices concerned me the most. Was it Sarah talking to herself or were these demonic voices? Her mother reported they were often deep and other worldly. I did not know how to determine the validity of anything I was hearing. It seemed beyond me. I was pretty sure I did not have what might be needed to resolve any of these issues. If demonic, it was a spiritual battle that I did not want to enter.
I did dig out my notes from college and reread everything to try and get a firm grasp on demon possession. Della and I began to pray about the situation and try and watch the girl and do some more research.
It was a few days later that the Vancouver Sun ran a story on witch’s covens in the Vancouver high schools. They named some of the schools where covens existed and one was where Sarah attended. They further reported that the covens took credit for shutting some high schools down in a single day when there were more teachers sick than replacements could be found. That made me perk right up. The Vancouver police were taking the issue seriously and investigating the validity of the claims, the paper reported. I needed to talk to Sarah about the witch’s coven in her school. Was she some how connected to that?
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