Re: Magdalene Grimoire

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Mason) wrote:
>Isn't the The Magdalene Grimoire, one of the books that Fred got from
>Wesley in Hellbound, the same book that was used to trap Dream of the
>Endless in the Sandman comic?

Yeah.  Although I was thinking of it as "that book which kept making trouble
in _The Dreaming_ and _The Girl Who Would Be Death_"; as it happens just last
night I thought to check _Preludes and Nocturnes_ again and look, there it
was.  Which makes sense.

I assume a nod from the "Angel" writers, unless Neil got the name from
somewhere else, in which case the Sandman Annotations would hopefully say, let
me google...

"       Panel 6:  Only known appearance of the _Magdalene Grimoire_.  This is
not a DC equivalent to Marvel's _Darkhold_.  A grimoire is a fancy word for a
(magical) book.  According to Neil Gaiman, Magdalene is "marginally more
likely to be the university than to refer to [the biblical] Mary Magdalene."
Magdalene is a college in Cambridge, Magdalen a college in Oxford.  Both are
pronounced "mauldin" in British usage."

Ah, there we go.  So it's Gaiman's, and Angel's stealing it.

-xx- Damien X-)