ya maybe? if we take that overwhelming sensation of evil and call that "demonic" it seems like a fine descriptor for it
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What if its those commonly occurring stimuli that create the belief system?
The belief framework could simply be the way various societies/cultures label these borderline states?
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I think this is likely true! it seems real plausible to me that someone had a psychotic episode or something, described it, ppl were like hm sounds like a Real Thing, which was a concrete enough belief to actively generate that experience in others
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this is partially why I'm so anti people engaging in "real beliefs" like this; it became real for me as a teen and it was Not Good, fuck those ppl for telling me demons were real
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ya part of why I hate the literal magic thing is that it takes the agency away from you. I am happy to experience demons now that I know I am the source of all creation.
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I feel like I've gained mastery by realizing that just cause I experience an intense and strong thing doesn't mean I need to insert it into a predictive model. this was very hard for me to understand at the time.