How does Nathaniel Hawthorne use word choice to support the element of supernatural in "Young Goodman Brown"?

There are words suggesting the supernatural all through
the story.  Here are few examples:

As Goodman Brown enters
the forest, there is darkness and gloom everywhere, and it is as though Brown might be
"passing through an unseen multitude," suggesting some supernatural and invisible beings
are lurking (736).

When Goodman meets the man whom he
intends to meet, the man has a staff, "which bore the likeness of a great black
snake"(737).

Goodman and his companion encounter a woman
from the village a page later, who exclaims, "The devil!"
(738).

There are many such passages in the story, and this
should be enough to give anyone an idea about the kinds of words Hawthorne uses to make
the reader think that the story is a supernatural one.