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CONTENTS

PREFACE

1. WARLOCKS AT THE DOOR
   about supernatural disturbance after Macbeth
   
   
2. THE DEATH OF THE WITCH MOTH
   or Warlocks Burning For Fire
   
   
3. NOTCHING THE BOAT
   To Seek the Warlock's Word
   This story was added to this collection in the 63rd Northern Mid-Lent and replaces Warlocks on the Wireless, a tale in reflections.
   
   
4. MERRY MYTHMAS
   or The Warlocks' Word Made Meat
   
   
5. WARLOCKS IN POWER
   after 1984
   
   
6. NUMERICALLY SUPERIOR
   or The Number of Warlocks m/f
   There is a parallel version of the children's song in this story, called "the Six By Six" in This language and "Liu Cheng Liu" in Zhezhong Yuyan.

EPILOGUE

All stories are original with the exception of Warlocks in Power, which is based for a large part on George Orwell's 1984, published 4 years after the end of the Second World War. Moreover, the central part of Notching the Boat is based on an ancient story in Zhezhong Yuyan*.

The original third tale, Warlocks on the Wireless, dealt with the BBC World Service's strong Christianist, or more generally, theocentrist, or more generally, religious bias. It was written about 40 aSWW, when the abbreviation BBC could, indeed, be read as British Broadcast Christian(ist)s. More than 20 years later, the BBC has become considerably less religionistic, and considerably less exclusivistic at that. The story may still be a good reflection, or still too mild a reflection, of the situation at other state broadcasting corporations in other countries, it does not adequately represent the situation at the BBC anymore. The Book of Symbols features a normistic reflection as an alternative to the (former) BBC's type of reflection.

Like the Model of Neutral-Inclusivity Six Warlocks My Age is still available in print (with Warlocks on the Wireless as the third story). Unlike the Model not all parts of it have been made available in electronic form so far.