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Wow pure tremors

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According to this analogy i presume the devil has never been there or it is inexistence however the devil in there are the cultures, norms and the people in the community. That is the devil she actually faced.

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I appreciate your thoughtful comments. I left the story as-told to avoid interfering with the interpretation. I think that maybe this story shows the mechanism of personnification of the devil. At its root, it is the human activity which is evil. This collective evil grows into something that could even be personified, in some sense. In telling the story she explicitly used the word devil (‘le diavle’) which I only repeated.

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