March 22, 2009

• Annals of Religion:

  The Craft

  "Pope tells clergy in Angola
  to work against
   belief in witchcraft"

  -- Headline in tonight's
  online New York Times
  
  

  "Do you think I am trying to weave a spell? Perhaps I am; but remember your fairy tales. Spells are used for breaking enchantments as well as for inducing them."

  
  

  -- C. S. Lewis in The Weight of Glory

  Related material:

  Fantasy and Fugue
  and the same words
  as rendered by
  Bach and Schweitzer

  See also
  Yesterday's entries
  and
  Midsummer Night
  in the Garden
  of Good and Evil.

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