in 1936 amanda told one of our investigators at a cocktail party ( a casual chance meeting had been arranged ) that her husband 's family was evil , that if she were to tell the truth about it people would think she was crazy , and that she would never go south again to be among those people , no matter how much her sons begged her to do so a little later during the evening , when she was quite intoxicated , she asked our investigator , whose name she did not know , whether or not he believed people could sell their souls to the devil she said that her husband had done it , and he was 'richer than rockefeller ' and so was she and so were her sons 'they will all burn in hell some day , ' she told him 'of that you can be sure ' when our investigator asked if the lady really believed this sort of thing , she replied that there were witches alive in the modern world who could throw spells .