Author: Phil Rickman

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• NULL (4)
  • IN: The Chalice (1997) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: I had received serious injury from someone who, at considerable cost to myself, I had disinterestedly helped, and I was sorely tempted to retaliate…
    FROM: Dion Fortune Psychic Self-Defence (1930), (1930), Book, UK
  • IN: A Crown of Lights (2001) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Goddess worshippers… are particularly concerned with creativity, intuition, compassion, beauty and cooperation. They see nature as the outward and visible expression of the divine, through which the goddess may be contacted. They have therefore more to do with ecology and conservationism than with orgies and are often gentle worshippers of the good in nature.
    FROM: Deliverance (ed. Michael Perry), The Christian Deliverance Study Group, (1987), Book, NULL
  • IN: The Wine of Angels (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Tears are the Wine of Angels ... the best ... to quench the devil’s fires.
    FROM: from a seventeenth-century meditation attributed to Thomas Traherne, (1650), [NA], UK
  • IN: The Fabric of Sin (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Shapen of clay and kneaded with water A bedrock of shame and a source of pollution A cauldron of iniquity and a fabric of sin … What can I say that hath not been foreknown Or what disclose that hath not been foretold?
    FROM: The Essenes: Poems of Initiation, (None), Book, NULL
• Lol Robinson (1)
  • IN: The Secrets of Pain (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They came for me in darkness They were black-eyed, grey and thin
    FROM: Mephisto’s Blues, (2010), Song, NULL
• Alfred Watkins (1)
  • IN: The Remains of an Altar (2006) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: ‘The Bible record is unmistakable in its references to the old straight track as having partly or wholly gone out of use: “the ancient high places are in possession of the enemy”; “my people have forgotten me, they stumble in their ways from the ancient paths.”’
    FROM: Alfred Watkins, The Old Straight Track (1925), (1925), Book, UK
• Aubrey Burl (1)
  • IN: The Cold Calling (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Sacrifice should not be equated with our modern attitude to murder.
    FROM: Rites of the Gods, (1981), Book, UK
• Thomas Traherne (1)
  • IN: The Wine of Angels (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Old Winter’s frost and hoary hair With garland’s crowned ...
    FROM: Poems of Felicity, (1910), Poem, UK
• Bible (1)
  • IN: The Lamp of the Wicked (2003) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The light of the righteous rejoiceth, but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.
    FROM: Proverbs 13.9, (-165), Bible, NULL
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1)
  • IN: The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: They had gone a mile or two when they passed one of the night shepherds upon the moorlands, and they cried to him to know if he had seen the hunt. And the man, as the story goes, was so crazed with fear that he could scarce speak…
    FROM: The Hound of the Baskervilles, (1902), Novel, UK
• Ella Mary Leather (1)
  • IN: The Prayer of the Night Shepherd (2004) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: No record in cold print can give the reader an idea of the pleasure experienced in collecting the elusive material we call folk-lore from the living brains of men and women of whose lives it has formed an integral part. In some cases, with regard to superstitious beliefs, there is a deep reserve to be overcome; the more real the belief, the greater the difficulty… The folk of the Welsh districts are more superstitious, as a rule…
    FROM: The Folk-lore of Herefordshire, (1912), Book, UK
• M. R. James (1)
  • IN: The Fabric of Sin (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Do I believe in ghosts…? I answer that I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.
    FROM: Introduction to his Complete Ghost Stories., (1936), Book, UK
• Nick Drake (1)
  • IN: To Dream of the Dead (2008) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Betty said she prayed today For the sky to blow away
    FROM: River Man, (1969), Song, UK
• John Dee (1)
  • IN: The Heresy of Dr Dee (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: All my life I had spent in learning… with great pain, care and cost I had, from degree to degree, sought to come by the best knowledge that man might attain unto in the world. And I found, at length, that neither any man living, nor any book I could yet meet withal, was able to teach me those truths I desired and longed for…
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK