You gotta be careful what you believe just cos ya read it somewhere. That stuff about George Washington and the cherry tree probably ain't true either. But it makes a good morality tale, don't it?

As for demons, if someone is haunted by a bad thought that makes him do bad things...and that does happen with some people...why wouldn't people in another time and place decide to call it a "demon"? They would just be usin' terminology that made sense to them. Who really knows if the bad thought is some kind of exterior agent that entered the person or just somethin' that naturally grew in the person? Modern psychiatry is devoted to helpin' people cast out such bad thoughts, ain't it?

- Chongo