Claes Jacob Heijndericksz
Puritan Board Freshman
The text doesn’t say she was surprised because Samuel showed up. She was horrified because Saul sat at the other end of her table.Is anyone actually saying "the witch did it"?
She was just as surprised as anyone when Samuel actually showed up.
Nowhere in the Bible is witchcraft considered a fraud or a parlor trick. For example in Acts 16 Paul performed an exorcism on a woman with a spirit of divination. And because that was bad for the local divination business Paul and Silas ended up in prison.