Per the book
“known as Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13 started as a Los Angeles street gang of Salvadoran immigrants who had fled their homes following the civil wars of the 1980s.
Eventually, MS-13 spread to a few other US metropolitan centers, including in Northern Virginia and Long Island, where they quickly developed a reputation for drug dealing, child prostitution, robbery, and other acts of violence, from beatings and stabbings to murder. A number of ex-gang members have openly testified to their worship of what they regard as demons.
“Sometimes when we wanted to find out if people were snitching on us, we would summon the devil,” a former member who called himself Speedy told the New York Post in June 2017.
“We used a Ouija board to call him.”
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““Once, the devil took over my body,” Speedy told the Post. “I didn’t know what was happening and it took 10 members of the gang to hold me down. In a trance, some gang members would give up names of people to target.
It was a loyalty test, and we called it ‘taking a soul.’ If the devil gave you a name, you had to go out and mess that person up. You had to take their soul.”
Per the book.
“the official manual for exorcists emphasized as strongly suggestive the following three signs:
1. the ability to speak an unknown language,
2. the awareness of hidden knowledge, and
3. various abnormal physical signs, especially immense strength, but also humanly impossible bodily “movements,” extreme contortions, and even the rare levitation.
All these classic features are not always present, but they recur often enough in serious possessions to serve as helpful diagnostic indicators.”
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