Miscellaneous Spells

~ Martin Pale's Restoration and Rectification

~ Teilo's Hand

~ Stokeseys Vitrification

~ Ormskirk's Spells of Summoning

~ Two Spells to make an Obstinate Man leave London

~ One Spell to Discover what My Enemy is doing Presently

~ Madness Tincture

~ Summoning a Fairy

~ Curse of Eternal Night

~ Muffling Spell

~ Spell of Concealment



* Information derived from the novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell *

Welbeck's Superior Buttons of Birmingham

Quotes from Jonathan Strange, second magician in England:

"Oak trees can be befriended and will aid you against your enemies if they think your cause is just.  Birch woods are well known for providing doors in Faerie. Ash-trees will never cease to mourn until the Raven King comes home again."

[Though there were indeed spells that could move rain and sunshine about, like pieces on a chessboard, I would never employ them except in the direst need and I advise you to follow my example. English magic, had grown up upon English soil and had in a sense been nurtured by English rain. In meddling with English weather, we meddled with England, and in meddling with England we risked destroying the very foundations of English magic.]

"A magician might [kill a man by magic], but a gentleman never could."

(Quotes derived from the novel Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell written by Susanna Clarke)

The Famulus

Jonathan Strange and Sir Walter Pole 

Bedford Coffee House, Covent Garden

Late February-March 1816

Dinner order

A turtle

Three or four beefsteaks

Some gravy made with the fat of a green goose

Some lampreys

Escalloped oysters

Small salad of beetroot

* Information derived from Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell a novel by Susanna Clarke *

Prophecy of the False Magician

"Two magicians shall appear in England
The first shall fear me; the second shall long to behold me;
The first shall be governed by thieves and murderers; the second shall conspire at his own destruction;
The first shall bury his heart in a dark wood beneath the snow, yet still feel its ache;
The second shall see his dearest possession in his enemy's hand...

I sit upon a black throne in the shadows but they shall not see me.
The rain shall make a door for me and I shall pass through it; 
The stones shall make a throne for me and I shall sit upon it...

The nameless slave shall wear a silver crown,
The nameless slave shall be a king in strange country..."



* Information derived from the book Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell written by Susanna Clarke *