Re: Magdalene Grimoire

Damien Sullivan wrote:
> 
> [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."

"Maudlin"

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