Christopher Drawlight was an odious character who took advantage of whoever he could and there was now some talk of using the statutes in the Cinque Dragownes to indict Christopher Drawlight. There are at least two edicts within the statutes that could be used to bring charges against Drawlight.
- Evil Tending: magic with an inherently malevolent purpose.
- Pretending to be a magician or pretending to act on behalf of a magician
Drawlight was one of the two persons that Johnathan Strange encountered when he stepped out from the mirror if you remember from my previous post, he had been traveling on the King's Roads. Drawlight was there seeking spells from people for a fee, these spells were supposing being commissioned by Mr. Norrell. This of course was not a fact at all, Drawlight had found another way to defraud his acquaintances.
It is a shame that Drawlight was found out because the long list of spells that Mrs. Bullworth wanted would have been very lucrative for Drawlight.
Here is a short list of spells that the vindictive Mrs. Bullworth wanted commissioned:
- Sir James Southwal, gout
- Miss Elizabeth Church, to have her engagement called off
- Mr. Bullworth, to be bitten by dogs
- Mrs. Bullworth, senior, a) to be drowned in a laundry tub, b) to choke to death on her own apricot preserves, c) and to be baked accidently in a bread oven…
Take note of the preferred outcomes of the spells. It is especially horrifying how three recommendations were made for her ex-mother in-law. Some-how Mrs. Bullworth would have liked all three of these calamities to befall her ex-mother in-law.
Johnathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke
Post #53
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