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The tea leaves in her cup at breakfast had told of a dark stranger. What would the crystal tell her? Mrs Owen wondered.
Up came the roots, and a crooked worm, disturbed by the probing of the fingers, wriggled blind in the sun. Of a sudden the valley filled all its hollows with the wind, with the voice of the roots, with the breathing of the nether sky. Not only a mandrake screams; torn roots have their cries; each weed Mr Owen pulled out of the ground screamed like a baby. In the village behind the hill the wind would be raging, the clothes on the garden lines would be set to strange dances.
Dylan Thomas, 'The Enemies,' from Adventures In The Skin Trade, New Directions, 1964, p. 59.
TIME: Indeterminate
PLACE: Wales
CIRCUMSTANCE: A clairaudient woman and her husband
It is quiet here, said Mr Davies.
We have no clock, she said, and laid the table for three.Dylan Thomas, 'The Enemies,' from Adventures In The Skin Trade, New Directions, 1964, p. 61.
TIME: Indeterminate
PLACE: Wales
CIRCUMSTANCE: A stranger arrives in the Jarvis Valley
She did not eat, for the old powers were upon her, and she dared not lift up her head for the greenness of her eyes. She knew by the sound which way the wind blew in the valley; she knew the stage of the sun by the curve of the shadows on the cloth.
Dylan Thomas, 'The Enemies,' from Adventures In The Skin Trade, New Directions, 1964, p. 62.
TIME: Indeterminate
PLACE: Wales
CIRCUMSTANCE: a clairvoyant and clairaudient woman
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