The wood of the European rowan, or, to a much lesser extent its North American cousin, has long been noted in the lore to drive out Fomors and other unpleasant spiritual beings.

He began to look at his watch now, every few minutes, and Camille was holding his arm with one hand and clutching the brass headstead on the bed with the other, shrieking whenever the pains came, which was most of the time now.

Complementing efforts to extend time-on-device by anticipating players’ conscious desires, another set of design strategies operate at an unconscious level, much like the affective appeals of architecture and ambience.

His larumbell might lowd and wide be hard, / When cause requird, but neuer out of time; / Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.