"It's ... I mean, I guess it's a spell. It's a codified passage in Latin, where you abjure the demon in God's name to leave the body it's possessing, and that forces it to go. But it doesn't make any difference if you believe in God or not, or if the demon does, it works anyway. I don't ... I don't know what that means. I don't know if God even has anything to do with it, or if it's just magic, or what. I don't think anybody knows."

(Calling on God at the first sign of trouble, the demon said.)

"But the thing is, the exorcism calls the demon by all kinds of different names -- impure spirit, infernal power, cursed serpent, legions of Hell, stuff like that. And ... and there's one place in the text where it ..."

A long beat.

"It calls him out directly. Vade, Satana. Begone, Satan. That, that's one of his names."


"I almost couldn't say it."