Agnello’s Merged Form
A man and serpent lose their distinct outlines in the thieves’ ditch.
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Alichino and Calcabrina’s Quarrel
The failed pursuit that sends two guardians into their own sticky pool.
Dante, Inferno
Ama-terasu's Retreat into the Cave
The mythic episode in which the Sun Goddess withdraws and an assembly of gods draws her back into the light.
Japanese mythology, Davis retelling
SourceApparitions at the Time of Death
Reports of a dying person’s presence interpreted as a visit or a thought-form.
Theosophical astral cosmology
SourceBattle of the Fireflies
The glowing insects associated with returning Minamoto and Taira warriors.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
SourceBran’s Otherworld Voyage
An invitation carried by a silver branch draws Bran beyond ordinary Ireland.
Celtic fairy traditions
SourceCleansing with the Morning Dew
Virgil uses fresh dew to remove the traces of the underworld from Dante's face.
Dante, Purgatorio
SourceCorpse Candle
A spectral light interpreted in Welsh tradition as a warning of death.
Welsh folklore, Wirt Sikes
Crossing the Centre of the World
Virgil’s reversal while climbing Lucifer explains the change from descent to ascent.
Dante, Inferno
SourceEnitharmon’s Eighteen-Hundred-Year Sleep
An immense interval of dreaming ends when a trumpet sounds, and Enitharmon awakens without knowing that she has slept.
William Blake’s illuminated mythology in Europe: A ProphecySourceFairy Taking
The belief that disappearance, illness, or death can conceal removal to Fairyland.
Celtic fairy traditions
SourceFour Sights
The encounters with age, illness, death and a mendicant that unsettle the prince’s protected life.
Buddhist traditions, Nivedita and Coomaraswamy
Gamblers in Thought-Forms
Paired winning and losing responses reportedly observed at Monte Carlo.
Theosophy, Besant and LeadbeaterSourceGoblin Funeral
A phantom procession whose bier can vanish when a witness joins it.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceGreat Departure of Siddhartha
The night journey that leaves palace, family and expected kingship behind.
Buddhist traditions, Nivedita and CoomaraswamySourceHoichi’s Ghost Performance
The musician summoned to perform for the dead in Davis’s Hoichi story.
Japanese legends, Davis retellingSourceKikuo and the Chrysanthemum Spirits
Flowers tended in memory of an exiled lord appear as children to the dying gardener in Davis’s chrysanthemum legend.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)SourceKiyo and the Temple Bell
A rejected lover becomes a dragon-serpent and destroys the bell sheltering a priest in Davis’s tale of passion and karma.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)
Mistaken for Boniface
An inverted speaker mistakes Dante’s arrival for that of a future condemned pope.
Dante, Inferno
Opening Night in Thought-Forms
An actor’s confidence and anxiety before taking the stage, as interpreted by the authors.
Theosophy, Besant and LeadbeaterSourcePeony Lantern
The nightly visits whose lantern leads Shinzaburo toward the visitors’ graves.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
Shipwreck Thought-forms
The reported group of forms that Thought-Forms associates with differing responses to a shipwreck.
Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
The Cord Cast into the Abyss
Dante’s loosened belt becomes Virgil’s signal for the creature below.
Dante, Inferno
The Dream of the Golden Eagle
An alarming dream of upward capture accompanies a movement the sleeping traveller does not witness.
Dante, Purgatorio
SourceThe Easter bells in Faust
The remembered song that interrupts Faust’s attempt to end his life.
Goethe’s Faust, Part One
The Friar Reveals the Broken Bridge
Local testimony corrects the route offered by Malacoda.
Dante, InfernoSourceThe Maiden of Unai
Two indistinguishable suitors, an inconclusive contest and a rivalry continuing after death form Davis’s tragic Unai legend.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)
The Navarrese Captive’s Escape
A captive’s promise of more informants becomes a successful leap into the pitch.
Dante, InfernoSourceThe Pine-tree Lovers of Takasago
Matsue rescues Teoyo beside a pine-tree, and their lifelong companionship continues as a moonlit legend in Davis’s retelling.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)
The Return to the Stars
The hidden ascent that restores a view of the sky at the close of Inferno.
Dante, Inferno
SourceThe Reversal of the Plagues in America
A supernatural assault recoils upon its senders when the Americans gather amid Orc’s red flames.
William Blake’s illuminated mythology in America: A Prophecy
The Threat of Medusa’s Gaze
The petrifying danger invoked by the Furies at the gate of Dis.
Dante, Inferno
The Tower of Famine
The remembered place of confinement within Ugolino’s speech in the frozen circle.
Dante, InfernoSourceThe Violet Well
A rescue at a flower-covered well becomes a tragic love story shaped by social exclusion in Davis’s anthology.
Japanese legends in F. Hadland Davis’s English retellings (1912)SourceTolaeth
An ominous sound that anticipates work, death or a funeral procession.
Welsh folklore, Wirt SikesSourceUrashima's Home-coming
The return in which Urashima discovers that three days in the Sea King's country were three centuries at home.
Japanese legends, Davis retelling
Virgil’s Motherlike Rescue
The guide carries Dante into the next ditch to escape the returning pursuers.
Dante, Inferno
Visu's Lost Years
The legendary encounter in which a woodman watches a game on Fuji and returns to find three centuries have passed.
Japanese mountain legend, Davis retelling
Walpurgis Night in Faust
The crowded mountain revel through which Faust and Mephistopheles travel.
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