19. Preparing For the Final Showdown Between Jesus and Satan
One day, Margaretta Peter told ten devoted followers to gather weapons and pray, because the final battle between good and evil, pitting Jesus against Satan, was about to begin. On her instructions, they gathered axes, clubs, and whatever weapons they could find, and barricaded themselves in a farmhouse attic. Margaretta told them that invisible devils had surrounded the house, then shrieked that they had broken in. So her followers began to wildly swing their weapons at imaginary demons that could only be seen by Margaretta.
It went on for hours, during which Margaretta and her followers destroyed the attic. Then they descended to the ground floor, and began hitting each other, on the theory that pain would ward off the devils. They kept at it until neighbors finally called the police, who arrived to find Margaretta’s followers senseless on the floor, while she continued pummeling them.
