It will reinforce the beliefs of gullible people about the underlying superstitions. They might not purchase it, but they will read it without realizing it is satire, and move on feeling that such things exist as evidence for such beliefs.
Vast swathes of the modern economy are no less superstitious than these toys.
At least, that is one thrust behind the piece.
> Subjective judgments and biased datasets can easily be turned into objective measures and potential truths, which will then be embedded in devices around us.
So you see, it's not intended to fool the gullible-vis-superstition, but to unfool the gullible-vis-technology.
The point of this piece isn't to fool "superstition believers", but to draw a comparison between black-box algorithmic governence and superstition.
You're reading a level of malevolent mischievousness into "subversive art" that I don't detect.