Magicienne Fatale

Magicienne Fatale

This image is a present to @Eilis :)

(BTW Elly, I have this oddball theory that your literature is split between magical (poetry) & deductive (novel) mindsets. Would resolving this split result in short stories!?)

Magicians are usually very imaginative and creative people (for accounts of the role of fiction in creating imaginative otherworlds see [...]). A good example is Jane, a feminist witch, who describes her childhood experiences during the early 1950s:

As a child I lived in two worlds – ‘this side’ and ‘the other side’. This was conscious from the age of six or seven years old. I can remember being taken to a performance of the ‘Nutcracker Suite’ ballet. I was totally enchanted by the images, particularly the ‘snowflakes’. I took these images home and lay in bed in the dark, watching them again and again. Eventually I became totally absorbed into them, and they took on a life of their own. I became a little human ‘hoover’, absorbing images from anywhere, including stories from comics and books, and took them over to the ‘other side’ where they became lived experience, and took on their own life. Similarly, if I had a particularly vivid and interesting dream, I learnt to go back into it, and it would take on a life of its own.