RUNE DEMON
"One was a woodcut of Bewick's, roughly torn out of the page:
one which shows a moonlit road and a man walking along it, followed by an awful demon
creature."
"So he
put his hand into the well-known nook under the pillow: only, it did not get so far. What he
touched was, according to his account, a mouth, with teeth, and with hair about it, and, he
declares, not the mouth of a human being."
"The man bent over and looked
at him. 'The devil? Well, I don't know, I'm sure,' Harrington heard him say to himself, and then
aloud, 'My mistake, sir; must have been your rugs! ask your pardon.' And then, to a subordinate
near him, ''Ad he got a dog with him, or what? Funny thing: I could 'a' swore 'e wasn't alone.'"
M.R. James, Casting the Runes
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