Rasembi Aunk, now that is a very strong question, and perhaps the same question that started this conversation for me and others.
How do we go about distinguishing a "Demon" so-called, from a dark deceased relative or Ancestor?
I'm really enjoying the perspectives and stories on this thread, so I'll share another to give an example.
I know an entire family who became Jehovah's Witnesses after going through a very rough supernatural ordeal for about 4-5 years. It was because of this family that I learned that in some states you can actually get out of a mortgage if you can prove your home is haunted. I found that very odd that such laws exist, especially for people who often deny the presence or existence of such?
Well, the Mother told me the story about the first year when she married her Husband and they moved into a new home and decided to start raising children. He had 2 children from a previous relationship, and she had 1, and they decided to start on more children together.
About a 3-4 months or so, she tells the story that strange things started happening. Like sounds coming from the basement. Moans, cries in the middle of the night. At first, naturally- they thought it was the children. Yet sometimes these noises would happen in the day time- when the children were at school. Then other things started happening, like books flying off the shelves, or shadows appearing on the wall while the family was in the living watching television.
It's true, it doesn't take much to scare most Black folks. And in time, they were moving. The Husband and Wife didn't say much about it, it was common sense so they moved to a second house in about a year or so.
In the next house it was the same deal, but even worse. Some of the children were waking up with scratches. Having terrible dreams about shadows fighting with them. By this time the Wife was pregnant and afraid. Thinking of course that all this was bad luck, and that every house they moved in was haunted. So, they moved into a 3rd house.
Same deal in the 3rd house. Finally, a friend suggested that they join a Church. The Husband was not very religious at all, and really neither was the Wife- so they comprised and became Jehovah's Witnesses. She said one night it sounded like a block party going on downstairs in the kitchen. The Husband and Wife ran out, using the name of Jehovah, and even some biblical quotes. They calmed down, for awhile. But every now and then something would happen.
Eventually she says, a friend of a friend came over and blessed the place. She told me she wasn't sure what religion this person was, but it worked. She mentioned oils, some foreign language and smoke. That doesn't sound like tools of JWs at all.
I figured she told me the story to capture my intrigue, but honestly she wanted an explanation. How is it possible for all of those homes to be haunted, who is that unlucky? When she asked the question, I heard the answer. It reminds of something Elder Bobby Hemmitt mentioned in one of his videos. Spirits and Ancestors try to contact us all the time, and because we are no longer as familiar as we used to be with the spirit world we think of these entities as "ghosts" dark shadows, and even Demons. When actually, the noises, the frames falling off the wall, the cries etc., are them trying to get our attention. "Sometimes" that seems to be the case.
Now, in this Woman's case- later on, her story became even more interesting. While she is still married to her Husband, and they are still raising children together. She later found out that he led a very troubled life as a Teenager. He was involved in several gangs, and spent time in jail for murder at the age of 16- something she did not learn until after the so-called hauntings.
So now, we have to think about these things logically, or at least try. Cries and moans coming from the basement? Your children waking up with mysterious scratches? Books flying off the shelves, shadows on the wall? You get the house "blessed" and these events stop?
These spirits do not sound like Ancestors, but they do sound like something seeking revenge. And if the Father did some unspoken crimes, even murder- it's possible this spirit follows him, trying to take from him what he took already - life.