User blog comment:BrianBerta/Are all ritual pastas pretentious?/@comment-27614308-20160117002136

When it comes to rituals, they seem to be mainly written as instructions to do this or that. The thing is, how does the author know? Has he done it?

"Don't do this but do this, or you will diiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

How do you know? If you did it, you should be dead. If you didn't, you can't possibly know that. No demon's going to tell you about their traps. Otherwise, they'd be really fucking stupid demons. Or they'd be smart and not make that part of it in the first place.