Moses was a bad card reader (spoilers)

Jessabelle never lived on that property until after her accident and mom knew she was going tone dead when she shot herself/was dying of brain cancer. Other that that...

Jessie was raised by her Aunt away from the house after her mother died. She'd never been to the house until her car accident where she had to call her Dad because he was her only living relative. .
And the Mom wanted to give Jessabella 'what she deserves' What she deserved was a life. The life that she felt that white Jessie took from her.

This post pretty much sums up my feelings perfectly. I couldn't figure out anyone's motivation at all. The real Jessabelle and her birth parents haunting the murderous husband makes perfect sense. He was the one who caused everything, I understand punishing him for it. But why haunt the adopted baby? It's not like the baby chose to be adopted by that crazy husband. She had no say in it, so why punish her? And the cook as you mentioned.

Besides, if they had this voodoo spell set up, (regardless of it only working while the adopted Jessie was physically present in the home), so that the adopted Jessie was going to be sacrificed for Jessabelle to take her place eventually no matter what, then why terrify her beforehand??? If the point is merely to take her body, why even go through the trouble of traumatizing her before she dies?

When the real Jessabelle takes Jessie's body, she calmly kisses Jessie's forehead first. This just confuses me, because she was so aggressive and violent before. Did Jessie have to be throughly horrified by the events that took place before her birth, not to mention the current events, before Jessabelle could take her body? Doesn't seem likely.

So for me the whole big twist ending just seemed kinda random and out of nowhere. And everything before seems like a waste of time because they make you get attached to Jessie before they toss her aside. It just left me feeling...lost.

I agree, this movie is unbelievable. All three ghosts should be happy together. The revenge death of the murderer father closing the loop. Maybe there was going to be a sequel where Jessie's soul was returned....

And what fresh Hell is this?, Malory from Archer(Dorothy Parker)

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Unless you believe fate to be set on stone, I'd assume every card reading would predict different outcomes as they took everyday small and big decisions, from taking said card reading lessons to banging each other.

Do Voodoo's practitioners even believe in the notion of heaven and hell? I honestly have no idea but hey let's assume they do for the sake of argument- what makes you think they would have ended up together? For starters, Mommy committed suicide so she's banned up there. Moses was involved in some heavy sh*t while alive, and baby Jessabelle wasn't baptized so she would have ended up stuck in Limbo.

I thought they need Jessie to believe in the arts for the ritual to succeed (I am pretty sure Preston did say something along those lines, and this movie remind me of The Skeleton Key wich hanged on terrorizing Kate Hudson into believing). Notice both the maid and Preston have no issue seing Jessabelle when she wants them to because they both lived their entire lives surrounded by the sh*t Jessie's aunt likely raised her away from.