1. ‘Drawing the line is not easy.’ This reconstruction is based on the one found in Jim Steinmeyer (2005), Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible, pp.47–69.
2. ‘society has been through a process of disenchantment’. Max Weber, ‘Science as a Vocation’, Daedalus, Vol. 87, No. 1, Science and the Modern World View (Winter, 1958), pp.111–134.
3. ‘The performance is on YouTube’. www.youtube.com/watch?v=405xMmDpCZs.
4. ‘a redemptive feeling, a reminder of many potential wonders’. Jim Steinmeyer, cit., p.21.
5. ‘custodians of a sacred knowledge of fire’. Georg Luck (1994), Il Magico nella Cultura Antica, p.49.
6. ‘gasps for air rather than grasps for a method.’ Ken Weber, ‘The Hierarchy of Mystery Entertainment: Essential Essays for Magicians’, in Joshua Jay, Magic in Mind: Essential Essays for Magicians, p.512.
7. ‘it is taken away from most of us at a very early age.’ Charles Reynolds, ‘On a Definition of Magic’, in Joshua Jay, cit., p.32.
8. ‘an interview with Erik Davis and Maja D’Aoust’ expandingmind.podbean.com/e/062410-magic-and-meaning.
1. ‘weird and terrible figures were often seen.’ Quoted in Richard Kaczynski (2010), Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, p.67.
2. ‘magic had all but disappeared from British life’. Ronald Hutton (1999), The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft, p.69.
3. ‘something that you did’. Karen Armstrong (2010), The Case for God, p.60.
4. ‘the first new religion home-brewed in England’. Ronald Hutton, cit., p.vii.
5. ‘the numinous in him perforce begins to stir’. Rudolf Otto (1958), The Idea of the Holy, p.7.
6. ‘We don’t have our Tertullian, our Augustine’. Tertullian (c.160–c.240) was an early Christian theologian who lived in Carthage. St Augustine (354–430) was bishop of Hippo, also in North Africa. His writings, including Confessions and The City of God, have exerted a huge influence on Christian thought.
7. ‘without any irritable reaching after fact and reason’. www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/john-keats-and-negative-capability.
8. ‘Religious fundamentalists appeal to a logos-based view of their faith’. Karen Armstrong, cit., p.7.
1. ‘midwives of other people’s discoveries’. F. W. Gibbs, ‘Itinerant Lecturers in Natural Philosophy’, Ambix, Vol. 8, No. 2 (1960), p.111.
2. ‘help her to remedy the weakness of her own mind’. Lisa Shapiro, ‘Princess Elizabeth and Descartes: The Union of Soul and Body and the Practice of Philosophy’, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 7, No. 3 (1999), p.504.
3. ‘Empty the haunted air, and gnomèd mine’. ‘Lamia’, in John Keats (2007), Selected Poems.
4. ‘it’s only dull and stupid folk who are not naturally disposed for wonder.’ René Descartes (2017), The Passions of the Soul, www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/pdfs/descartes1649part2.pdf.
5. ‘Respectable physicists argue that parallel universes might exist’. Michio Kaku (2005), Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos.
6. ‘a prediction based on past experiences and cultural expectations’. Lisa Feldman Barrett (2017), How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.
7. ‘The article is from an urban birdwatcher’. David Lindo (2015), ‘Pecks and the City: How to Be an Urban Birdwatcher’, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jul/10/urban-birder-birdspotting-cities-david-lindo.
8. ‘In a novel I wrote more than ten years ago, Pan’. Francesco Dimitri (2008), Pan.
9. ‘questions about things that had until then seemed entirely obvious’. Philip Ball (2012), Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything.
10. ‘similar to those found in monasteries.’ Philip Ball, cit., p.316.
11. ‘rather than simply seeing better what they already knew.’ Philip Ball, cit., p.290.
12. ‘by giving us a glimpse of what we don’t know’. Stuart Firestein (2012), Ignorance: How It Drives Science.
13. ‘science produces ignorance, possibly at a faster rate than it produces knowledge’. Stuart Firestein, cit. p.28.
1. ‘achieve fulfilment’. Victor E. Frankl (2004), Man’s Search for Meaning, p.49.
2. ‘a gift relationship with nature’. Lewis Hyde (1999), The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, p.27.
3. ‘nature is not a place to visit, it is home’. Gary Snyder (1999), The Practice of the Wild, p.18.
4. ‘cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity’. Annie Dillard (2011), Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, p.17.
5. ‘the prejudice induced by a powerful map’. Robert Macfarlane (2007), The Wild Places, p.10.
6. ‘a place as it is perceived by an individual or by a culture moving through it’. Robert Macfarlane, cit., p.141.
7. ‘All real living is meeting’. Martin Buber (2013), I and Thou, p.9.
8. ‘central to the experience of religion, politics, nature, and art’. Jonathan Haidt, Dacher Keltner (2003), ‘Approaching Awe, a Moral, Spiritual, and Aesthetic Emotion’, Cognition and Emotion, Vol. 17, No. 2, p.297.
1. ‘and nothing else is known of her’. This telling of the story comes from the reconstruction, from different sources, to be found in John Clark, ‘Small, Vulnerable ETs: The Green Children of Woolpit’, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, (2006).
2. ‘He is a good man, Thomas the Rhymer’. From the reconstruction in Carolyne Larrington (2015), The Land of the Green Man: A Journey Through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles, pp.50–53.
3. ‘a brush with mortality’. Simon Young (2018), ‘Confessions of a Fairy Hunter’, world.edu/confessions-of-a-fairy-hunter.
4. ‘It contains five hundred entries’. Dr Young and I had been briefly in touch before I started writing this chapter. He wrote to me more than three weeks later, just as I was writing this paragraph. It feels like too much of a resonance not to mention it.
5. ‘priests routinely identified fairies with demons, devils and witches’. Richard Firth Green (2016), Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Belief and the Medieval Church.
6. ‘bacteria and radiation readings were normal for this material’. Jacques Vallée (2014), Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers, p.35.
7. ‘in the hope of making some sense of them’. Patrick Harpur (2003), Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld, p.268.
8. ‘just a vaguely humanoid flowing mass of soil, rock, and mud’. Simon Young (2018), ‘Fairy Census 2014–2017’.
9. ‘as professionals who need to probe into strangers’ memories (police officers, for example) know all too well.’ See, for example, Giuliana Mazzoni (2003), Si Può Credere a un Testimone? La Testimonianza e le Trappole della Memoria.
10. ‘we have not even a rush candle to guide our steps’. W. B. Yeats (1902), ‘Belief and Unbelief’, in The Celtic Twilight.
11. ‘To this day, she swears that she saw a gnome’. Simon Young, cit., § 18.
1. ‘the most influential writer of the 20th century’. Johann Hari (2003), ‘The Wrong Lord of the Reads’, www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/the-wrong-lord-of-the-reads-82201.html.
2. ‘are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter’. J. R. R. Tolkien (2001), Tree and Leaf, pp.60–61.
3. ‘the world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it’. J. R. R. Tolkien, cit.
4. ‘the direction of escape is toward freedom’. Ursula K. Le Guin (2017), No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters.
5. ‘but neither enjoys either temporal or causal precedence’. Arthur W. Frank (2010), Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology, loc. 494.
6. ‘he was trim, buff, and handsome’. Grant Morrison (2011), Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero, p.403.
1. ‘that went down in history’. Jean Verdon (1999), Il Piacere nel Medioevo, pp.126–131.
2. ‘space of possibility’. Beau Lotto (2017), Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently, p.163.
3. ‘it will adapt to the lack of challenge and let its dull side come out’. Beau Lotto, cit., p.86.
4. ‘as a child or a Martian, both free of habit in this area’. John Armstrong, Alain de Botton (2014), Art as Therapy, pp.59–60.
5. ‘it can seem strange to treat lingering as a virtue’. John Armstrong (2000), The Intimate Philosophy of Art, p.98.
6. ‘two sounds, one high and one low’. Sara Maitland (2009), A Book of Silence: A Journey in Search of the Pleasures and Powers of Silence, p.197.
7. ‘wrote George Orwell’. Cit. in Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott (1994), Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell, p.8.
8. ‘by using smell rather than sight’. Charles Foster (2016), Being a Beast: An Intimate and Radical Look at Nature, pp.55–59.
9. ‘a study on smell, Aroma’. Constance Classen et al., cit.
10. ‘Their smell is so sweet that it might cause you to weep tears of joy.’ Constance Classen et al., cit., p.131.
11. ‘about blood and organs, cruelty and decay’. Anthony Bourdain (1999), ‘Don’t Eat Before Reading This’, The New Yorker.
12. ‘taste is largely social’. Diane Ackerman (1995), A Natural History of the Senses, p.127.
13. ‘and so to name and define it’. Alan Watts (1951), The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety, p.92.
14. ‘the brainy modern loves not matter but measures’. A. Watts, cit., p.93.
1. ‘they have to start getting prepared to be units of the labour force’. Neil Gaiman, Kazuo Ishiguro (2015), ‘Let’s Talk About Genre: Neil Gaiman and Kazuo Ishiguro in Conversation’, New Statesman.
2. ‘how cleverly they had played’. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8Kq1wucsk.
3. ‘after one meagre wonder-filled minute’. P. Dietze et al., ‘Awe, the Small Self, and Prosocial Behaviour’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 6 (2015).
4. ‘In a state of flow we create our best work.’ Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi (2002), Flow: The Classic Work on How to Achieve Happiness.
5. ‘which she called “grit”’. Angela Duckworth (2016), Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance.
6. ‘score a second goal, and England won’. As reported by Alastair Campbell (2015), Winners: And How They Succeed, p.170.
7. ‘how does the other side see their own behaviour?’. Deepak Malhotra (2016), Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts Without Money or Muscle, p.126.