UriYosef: These warnings don't automatically imply that such people are phonies.
Weboh: The only god who can athenticate anything is hashem.

ProfBen: (“a woman who has [or controls] an Ov”)... "not a “witch”..
Weboh: Rather the familar spirits had the ability to control her, not the other way around. Or at least pretended not to be able to control her. As to her not being a witch, which I know she wasn't, don't use narcotics. And she was a nekromancer, which at the very least, she would search out dead people.