The monkey's paw curls as the part of that you left out happens too: they die and do not return, but people with a fundamental misunderstanding of the past and the nature of the message use the name of the movement and its figurehead as a banner to take over the world, colonising entire continents and spreading death and war in the name of the figurehead. The texts of the movement, made up by con-men and the wealthy and powerful, become the most-published texts of all time, and are genuinely read as literal truth by everyone who follows the movement.