[banjo joe]

...the police had apparently been called by an Arab woman who said the sound of the ram's horn disturbed her children

My understanding is that the sound of the shofar transmits confusion into the demonic underworld.

[sheik yerbouty]

TROP does not want its demonic practices neutralized by Jewish or Christian rites.

[bvw]

Maybe it binds the souls of the righteous -- at least for the period of the resonance of the horn, and by that binding blinds the shadows -- for the brief tekiah the curtains seperate and the divine light blows in.