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The idea is the possessing spirit was a man once, since in some Christian teachings demons are not allowed to directly kill. Specifically he was a psychopathic killer in a pre-modern era. So I was shooting for a tumbling cadence to his 'speech' patterns, breathless, excited, and almost horny.

But you are right, I will have to shift the emphasis and wording in the begining to do a more effective misdirect, since the readers here will be expecting something on the order of the supernatural. I was thinking of using another Ancient Language (Attic Greek or one of the older Germanic languages) but I figured the audience wouldn't play along (i.e. grab their Latin dictionaries or Google translate) to find out what he said. "For the greater glory of Asmodeus [Asmodaios]! I live, I have lived, I will have lived hereafter! I reign in Tartarus [the Roman name for Hell] Here me, Oh Lord of Hell [or more correctly, "the Infernal Region"]!"

A lot of exorcists say the Latin hits harder than the vernacular.