Lord Dunsany Quotes
And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.
Dunsany, Lord. The King of Elfland's Daughter. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924.
Giovanni Battista Cibo. This was quoted in the Malleus Maleficarum, the man legal handbook used for centuries for the discovery and punishment of witches.
Whereas there are a small number of fundamentalist Christians who do not celebrate Halloween and oppose it because it has pagan origins, and they base their decisions on that fact, O’Donnell’s claim of human sacrifice was totally unfounded. There has not been a single case of Halloween human sacrifice ever documented in all the years the holiday has been celebrated by most Americans.
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's œuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered one of the greatest living writers of the English-speaking world; he is today best known for his 1924 fantasy novel The King of Elfland's Daughter.
