Bingo. The devil's game is deception, obfuscation, and subterfuge.
Here's an excerpt from the
Canon Episcopi,
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It is also not to be omitted that some unconstrained women, perverted by Satan, seduced by illusions and phantasms of demons, believe and openly profess that, in the dead of night, they ride upon certain beasts with the pagan goddess Diana, with a countless horde of women, and in the silence of the dead of the night to fly over vast tracts of country, and to obey her commands as their mistress, and to be summoned to her service on other nights. But it were well if they alone perished in their infidelity and did not draw so many others into the pit of their faithlessness. For an innumberable multitude, deceived by this false opinion, believe this to be true and, so believing, wander from the right faith and relapse into pagan errors when they think that there is any divinity or power except the one God."
That the devil, who is the father of lies, would delude people into believing things and experiencing things that are false wasn't ignored; but what was rejected was the idea that any of this was actually happening, and thus relapsing into Pagan superstition by ascribing divinity and power to anything other than God.
-CryptoLutheran