The motto on page vi is from Milan Kundera: The Art of the Novel, copyright © 1988 Grove Press. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic Monthly Press.
The mottoes on pages 1 and 143 are from the Encyclopaedia of Magic and Superstition, Macdonald & Co., London, 1988. The quotations on pages 137 and 140 are from the same work.
The quotations on pages 4 and 7 are from John Milton: Paradise Lost.
The quotation on page 8 is from William Congreve: The Mourning Bride.
The quotations on pages 38 and 109 are extracts from the Authorised Version of the Bible (The King James Bible), the rights to which are vested in the Crown, and are reproduced by permission of the Crown’s Patentee, Cambridge University Press.
The quotations on pages 54 and 59 are from William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129.
The motto on page 69 is from Peter L. Berger: A Rumour of Angels: Modern Society and the Rediscovery of the Supernatural, copyright © 1969 Peter L. Berger. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
The quotation from Hesiod on page 87, the definition on pages 112 and the quotation on page 141 are from E. Cobham Brewer: The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Cassell plc. This is the dictionary referred to on page 112 – that Griet always keeps at her bedside.
The quotation on page 90 is from the New English Bible © Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press 1961, 1970.
The quotations on pages 105 and 106 are from the Living Bible, published in Britain by Kingsway Publishers, and in the USA by Tyndale House Publishers.
The other two dictionary entries on page 112 are from The Oxford Illustrated Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1975. Used by permission.
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