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Once

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Once	type	TVTItem
Once	label	Once
Once	page	Once
Once	comment	A 2001 novel by James Herbert.Following a stroke, twenty-seven-year old carpenter Thom Kindred continues his recovery with a return to his childhood home of Little Bracken, cottage guesthouse to Castle Bracken, a sixteenth century mansion in the Shropshire countryside. His childhood friend Hugo Bleeth, heir to Castle Bracken, has arranged Thom's attendance by Nell Quick, self-professed healer and nurse to Sir Russell Bleeth, the dying lord of the manor. Her oddly sly, lascivious demeanour somehow makes Thom uneasy. A plate then apparently throws itself to the floor, scaring her off.After encounters in the forest with tiny glowing winged figures and a sensuous young woman who seems not quite of this world, Thom fears his stroke may have somehow induced hallucination. When some kind of hideous fiend attacks him in his bed, a tiny, strangely wizened, size-shifting man comes to the rescue; introduces himself as Rigwit, a brownie, and warns Thom of Nell's malice.Next morning, Jennet, the undine girl from the woods, then introduces Thom to the world of the faerefolkis...Not to be confused with the 2007 film written and directed by John Carney.
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Once	parsed	2024-03-18T19:31:48Z
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Once	processingUnknown	HoistByTheirOwnPetard
Once	isPartOf	DBTropes
Once / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Once / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Of a sort; a storytelling elf goes intermittently by the names Trebreh and Semaj.
Once / int_127fc252	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_127fc252	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_127fc252
Once / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Once / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: In Thom's absence, Nell uses her aphrodisiac orchid roots on Katy.
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Once / int_12dd1d4c	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_12dd1d4c
Once / int_14a8974a	type	Love Potion
Once / int_14a8974a	comment	As the effect of the orchid roots wears off, Nell's crazed lust reminds Katy of Rochester's mad wife.
Once / int_14a8974a	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_14a8974a	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_14a8974a
Once / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Once / int_1bf47ada	comment	The Medic: When a delirious Thom recovers from wasp stings, Jennet discreetly applies soothing creams. Rigwit, to aid his stroke-induced fatigue, consistently supplies him with plum-flavoured herbal juice, and later, some rather more powerful stuffs, some of whose content he suggests Thom is better off not knowing.
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Once / int_1bf47ada	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_1bf47ada
Once / int_1c512c6c	type	The Swarm
Once / int_1c512c6c	comment	The Swarm: A magically infinite horde of spiders.
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Once / int_1c512c6c	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_1c512c6c
Once / int_2164d2a1	type	Energy Beings
Once / int_2164d2a1	comment	Energy Beings: Multicoloured sparks of light, "part of the hidden life-force of all that exists," briefly heal Thom of his stroke-induced weariness.
Once / int_2164d2a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_2164d2a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_2164d2a1
Once / int_2207b002	type	Ambiguously Brown
Once / int_2207b002	comment	Ambiguously Brown: A non-human example in Rigwit, whose skin tone somewhat resembles that of someone Chinese.
Once / int_2207b002	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_2207b002	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_2207b002
Once / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
Once / int_225d8ff9	comment	Ambiguously Human: Thom encounters, reclining beneath a lakeside tree, Jennet. While she appears to be a five foot tall young woman, her exquisite pallor, unabashed nudity, and cohorts of tiny winged figures have Thom decidedly perplexed.
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Once / int_225d8ff9	featureConfidence	1.0
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Once / int_234073a4	type	Your Mind Makes It Real
Once / int_234073a4	comment	Your Mind Makes It Real: Nell's phantasms seem to work like this; the spiders have increasingly tangible effects before Thom throws their jar from the cottage.
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Once / int_234073a4	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_234073a4
Once / int_29476563	type	Crusty Caretaker
Once / int_29476563	comment	Crusty Caretaker: Averted with Eric Pimlet, the Bracken estate's kindly old gamekeeper, who, on Thom's sixth birthday, inspired his carpentry vocation with the gift of a whittling knife.
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Once / int_29476563	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_29476563
Once / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Once / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Thom's father, revealed to be Jonathan Bleeth, heir to Castle Bracken, died before Thom was born. When Thom was ten, his mother Bethan apparently drowned herself. Having been an undine who became human, the death of Jonathan stifled the magic which kept her alive.
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Once / int_297ab1b9	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_297ab1b9
Once / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Once / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: Down Played and justified, a faery's spiritual demeanour and intentions affect human senses' interpretation of them. Rigwit has "an eccentric charm...bewitchingly intriguing," Jennet looks like a "fantastically beautiful" nubile young woman.
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Once / int_35cae9cc	type	Sex Magic
Once / int_35cae9cc	comment	Sex Magic: Nell tries to acquire Thom's seed, which would offer profound magical influence. Sexual love, said to be "the strongest magic of all", enabled Thom's mother Bethan to become human. Intercourse with Thom later enables Jennet to cast her magic back through time to save Thom from Nell's magically induced stroke.
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Once / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
Once / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Subverted; Jonathan and Bethan, indifferent to formal marriage, underwent a faerefolkis ceremony.
Once / int_35e077	featureApplicability	-0.3
Once / int_35e077	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_35e077
Once / int_3d85c6bc	type	Black Speech
Once / int_3d85c6bc	comment	Black Speech: The spectral, rotted witches roused by Nell's overzealous conjuring taunt her in an unknown language.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_3d85c6bc
Once / int_3e4cb2cc	type	Weird Weather
Once / int_3e4cb2cc	comment	Weird Weather: A storm cloud, focused directly above Castle Bracken, heralds a sudden unnatural hostility of surrounding flora and fauna.
Once / int_3e4cb2cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_3e4cb2cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_3e4cb2cc
Once / int_4548e6d9	type	Innocent Bystander
Once / int_4548e6d9	comment	Innocent Bystander: Katy Budd, Thom's physiotherapist.
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Once / int_4548e6d9	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_4548e6d9
Once / int_471bde4	type	All Webbed Up
Once / int_471bde4	comment	All Webbed Up: Nell's spiders begin an attempt at this on Thom.
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Once / int_471bde4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Once / int_476d2edb	type	Snakes Are Sinister
Once / int_476d2edb	comment	Snakes Are Sinister: Averted with a grass snake, happily rode upon by several tiny imps. Invoked with the phantom snakes who terrorise Hugo.
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Once / int_476d2edb	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_476d2edb
Once / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Once / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Some beautiful descriptions of the Shropshire countryside.
Once / int_49d59be9	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_49d59be9	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_49d59be9
Once / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Once / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: The faerefolkis are guided by the Magicks, an apparent Call-Back to forces mentioned in The Magic Cottage.
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Once / int_4a852458	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_4a852458
Once / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Once / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Thom, whose father died before he was born, and whose mother, when he was ten, apparently drowned herself, honed a solitary pragmatism when Sir Russell sent him to boarding school. Katy Budd, Thom's physiotherapist, takes a liking to her charge; arrives at the cottage in his absence, is subjected by Nell to aphrodisiac orchid roots; flees, and is driven by Nell's familiar magpie into a car crash. Happily, she survives.
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Once / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Once / int_4de1a4f7	comment	Improvised Weapon: When the succubus attacks, Rigwit, with a broom handle, gives it a few whacks.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_4de1a4f7
Once / int_4f6d87f7	type	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl
Once / int_4f6d87f7	comment	Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Thom, at average height, and Jennet at five foot (if that), although this seems to be tall by undine standards.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_4f6d87f7
Once / int_50ed1af4	type	Our Demons Are Different
Once / int_50ed1af4	comment	Our Demons Are Different: Nell's rituals involve veneration of traditional demonic figures. Seemingly drawn to her excess of insidious conjuring, one such figure, the Diabolus, arrives to claim her soul.
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Once / int_50ed1af4	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_50ed1af4
Once / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Once / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Averted with a Gof, a paunchy, benevolent elf.
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Once / int_51300dbf	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_51300dbf
Once / int_553d1224	type	King on His Deathbed
Once / int_553d1224	comment	King On His Death Bed: Elderly Sir Russell Bleeth, dying of inoperable heart disease, is bedridden in Castle Bracken's eyrie, whose glorious panoramic view of the estate seems to offer him some comfort.
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Once / int_56635771	type	Recurring Character
Once / int_56635771	comment	Recurring Character: Rumbo, last seen as a squirrel in The Magic Cottage, is now a fox.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_56635771
Once / int_566f3ddd	type	Nature Spirit
Once / int_566f3ddd	comment	Nature Spirit: The faerefolkis live "in the spirit of nature." Without their nurture, life on Earth couldn't survive.
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Once / int_566f3ddd	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_566f3ddd
Once / int_571a3c67	type	Power Incontinence
Once / int_571a3c67	comment	Power Incontinence: Nell's overzealous conjuring summons phantasmal emaciated crones who torment her with promises of the physically corrupting effects of Black Magic; a demonic figure termed the Diabolus, and a fatal lightning bolt.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_571a3c67
Once / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Once / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: "Bones" Hartgrove, Sir Russell's foreboding valet, who used to scare Thom, knows, like his forebears, the secret of the faerefolkis; encouraged Sir Russell to accept Jonathan's union with an undine, and defends the unspoiled estate from Nell and Hugo's plans.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_575fd5e2
Once / int_5f4c3290	type	Skeptic No Longer
Once / int_5f4c3290	comment	Skeptic No Longer: Thom.
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Once / int_5f4c3290	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_5f4c3290
Once / int_66479d0	type	Our Ghosts Are Different
Once / int_66479d0	comment	Our Ghosts Are Different: Unintentionally summoned by Nell's conjuring, several rotted, mutilated witches taunt her with the ruinous effects of Black Magic. Thought not to be spirits of earthly beings, Jennet notes them not to be apparitions.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_66479d0
Once / int_686c9ad7	type	Only the Pure of Heart
Once / int_686c9ad7	comment	Only the Pure of Heart: Debunked as a means to perceive faeries, which comes from psychic orientation.
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Once / int_686c9ad7	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_686c9ad7
Once / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Once / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: Some sensual descriptions of Nell, Katy and Jennet, and Thom sometimes goes shirtless.
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Once / int_6bf93fc7	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_6bf93fc7
Once / int_6f572188	type	Another Dimension
Once / int_6f572188	comment	Another Dimension: The faerefolkis exist on a higher dimension, between vibrations generally beyond human senses, hence Rigwit's initial size-shifting in accordance with Thom's adjusting perception.
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Once / int_6f572188	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_6f572188
Once / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Once / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: Thom plans to use his inheritance to turn Castle Bracken into a specialist children's hospital, around which the faerefolkis will gradually further reveal themselves to humanity.
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Once / int_716c0b1b	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_716c0b1b
Once / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
Once / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked with the phantom snakes who terrorise Hugo.
Once / int_72e0023f	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_72e0023f	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_72e0023f
Once / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Once / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: The faerefolkis sometimes appear to infants and the very old, "because we like them, and they're no danger to us." When visiting Katy in hospital, Thom passes a children's ward, and is moved to plan to use his inheritance to transform Castle Bracken into a specialist hospice.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_75538142
Once / int_77c0952e	type	Face Your Fears
Once / int_77c0952e	comment	Face Your Fears: As explained by Rigwit, Thom's only way of getting rid of the spiders is to throw their jar from the cottage.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_77c0952e
Once / int_7913eb6f	type	Healing Hands
Once / int_7913eb6f	comment	Healing Hands: Nell claims such ability. The faerefolkis have advanced mastery of cures, demonstrated by Rigwit and Jennet.
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Once / int_7913eb6f	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_7913eb6f
Once / int_7be20777	type	Folk Horror
Once / int_7be20777	comment	Folk Horror: Some of the faerefolkis enjoy tormenting humans; Thom meets several who scarily pop up from beneath the soil, driving him into a wasps' nest. Nell's perversion of Wicca incorporates veneration of demons, allowing for insidious manipulation of nature, and horrifying phantasms.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_7be20777
Once / int_7dbd52b8	type	Light Is Good
Once / int_7dbd52b8	comment	Light Is Good: While initially hostile to Thom's unwitting intrusion, the tiny glowing faeries prove benevolent. When stung to near-delirium by a swarm of disturbed wasps, a small floating orb, sent by recently encountered Jennet, guides him home to Little Bracken.
Once / int_7dbd52b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_7dbd52b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_7dbd52b8
Once / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
Once / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: Several faerefolkis are reverse named after earlier Herbert novels.
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Once / int_808b6d16	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_808b6d16
Once / int_8382e003	type	Fairy Sexy
Once / int_8382e003	comment	Fairy Sexy: Jennet and her fellow undines, as well as the smaller faeries.
Once / int_8382e003	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_8382e003	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_8382e003
Once / int_838748cb	type	Sour Outside, Sad Inside
Once / int_838748cb	comment	Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Sir Russell's embittered aloofness is imagined by Thom to have been caused by being twice a widower, and by the killing by an IRA bomb of his Belfast-stationed son Jonathan.
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Once / int_83f18d93	type	DontGoIntoTheWoods
Once / int_83f18d93	comment	Don't Go Into the Woods: A nostalgic walk through the woods of Thom's childhood home sees him suddenly set upon by a gang of fiendish, malicious faerefolkis, who steer him into a wasp's nest. Inverted; when later led here by Jennet, he finds most of the faerefolkis to be benevolent.
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Once / int_83f18d93	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_83f18d93
Once / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
Once / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Some of the faerefolkis delight in tormenting humans. Why? "For fun".
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Once / int_859ec5d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_859ec5d8
Once / int_8658cd14	type	Agent Scully
Once / int_8658cd14	comment	Agent Scully: Thom, perplexed by a multicoloured swarm of tiny lights, limply theorises them to be some undiscovered breed of butterfly.
Once / int_8658cd14	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_8658cd14	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_8658cd14
Once / int_8748f851	type	Brainy Brunette
Once / int_8748f851	comment	Brainy Brunette: Nell, with her knowledge of traditional remedies, nursing, and witchcraft.
Once / int_8748f851	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_8748f851	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_8748f851
Once / int_8774fb47	type	Eldritch Abomination
Once / int_8774fb47	comment	Eldritch Abomination: To Sir Russell's eyrie, Nell summons what appears to be a concentrated mass of pervasive darkness, which amalgamates into various fearsome manifestations.
Once / int_8774fb47	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_8774fb47	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_8774fb47
Once / int_8b442f50	type	Did Not Get the Girl
Once / int_8b442f50	comment	Did Not Get the Girl: Averted. While Jennet must spend seven years in the Waiting Place as payment for magically influencing events to save Thom from Nell's magically induced stroke, she will return in human form to preside with Thom over the children's hospice.
Once / int_8b442f50	featureApplicability	-1.0
Once / int_8b442f50	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_8b442f50
Once / int_90d5b651	type	Our Fairies Are Different
Once / int_90d5b651	comment	Our Fairies Are Different: Folkloric conceptions of such beings are revealed to have been inspired by race memory.
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Once / int_90d5b651	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_90d5b651
Once / int_91bab7e0	type	Monstrous Humanoid
Once / int_91bab7e0	comment	Monstrous Humanoid: From the forest floor around Thom emerge numerous leering heads. The succubus, with its huge cranium, large black eyes, and muscular, leathery frame.
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Once / int_91bab7e0	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_91bab7e0
Once / int_970c8a84	type	Big Fun
Once / int_970c8a84	comment	Big Fun: Portly Hugo is jolly, generous and in league with Nell, although seems to retain some genuine affection for his old friend Thom.
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Once / int_970c8a84	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_970c8a84
Once / int_97d575f9	type	Guardian Entity
Once / int_97d575f9	comment	Guardian Entity: Rigwit, custodian of Little Bracken, also looks after Thom. Jennet is revealed to have reached back through time to save Thom from Nell's magically inflicted stroke.
Once / int_97d575f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_97d575f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_97d575f9
Once / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Once / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: Nell, implied to have some innate supernatural ability, uses occult ritual to, among other things, try to acquire the Bleeth inheritance.
Once / int_9e2c893	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_9e2c893	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_9e2c893
Once / int_9e51933c	type	I Know What You Fear
Once / int_9e51933c	comment	I Know What You Fear: Nell invokes phantasms to respectively terrorise Sir Russell, Hugo, Thom and, unintentionally, herself.
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Once / int_9e51933c	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_9e51933c
Once / int_9e83f027	type	Amazing Technicolor Population
Once / int_9e83f027	comment	Amazing Technicolor Population: Several undines have complexions tinged with blue or green.
Once / int_9e83f027	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_9e83f027	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_9e83f027
Once / int_a0f3c6a0	type	Succubi and Incubi
Once / int_a0f3c6a0	comment	Succubi and Incubi: A succubus, though not the usual Hot as Hell kind. Thom wakes from a dream about Jennet, and then Nell, to find himself being fellated by a four foot tall, muscular biped with a huge cranium, black eyes and pointy teeth; sent by Nell to acquire Thom's seed.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_a0f3c6a0
Once / int_a10f3840	type	Heaven
Once / int_a10f3840	comment	Heaven: A vision of part of the afterlife is glimpsed by Thom whilst making love with Jennet. A vast white void peopled with joyous souls, it's said to be a "Waiting Place."
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Once / int_a10f3840	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_a10f3840
Once / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Once / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Thom was born of an undine-turned-human and a human man.
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Once / int_a2cbad1	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_a2cbad1
Once / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
Once / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Single Tear of Joy: On Thom's realisation of his preordained vocation to aid humanity's gradual reunion with the faerefolkis by founding in Castle Bracken a children's hospice to whose patients the faerefolkis will gradually apply their healing powers, Jennet sheds a single tear, seemingly both in sorrow at having to spend seven years in the Waiting Place, and joy.
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Once / int_a2ff4e6f	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_a2ff4e6f
Once / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
Once / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: With deep fondness, Thom recalls his widowed, adoring mother Bethan. On sight of her sketch of his father Jonathan Bleeth, Thom feels an instant sense of the man's compassion.
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Once / int_a30c287	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_a30c287
Once / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Once / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Wayward faerefolkis who do irreversible harm are confined to the Punishment Tree, where they squirm in silent torment until dropping off as pieces of bark.
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Once / int_a8a04f6f	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_a8a04f6f
Once / int_a8c462db	type	Super-Senses
Once / int_a8c462db	comment	Super-Senses: On accompanying Jennet into the woods, Thom, having attuned to the dimension inhabited by the faerefolkis, sees, hears and smells, with overwhelming lucidity, the life around him.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_a8c462db
Once / int_a8cff6a	type	Familiar
Once / int_a8cff6a	comment	Familiar: Atop Little Bracken's tower roof, Thom is disquieted by a magpie, which he feels seems to be watching him. The bird is later shown to have a sinister affinity with Nell.
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Once / int_a8cff6a	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_a8cff6a
Once / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Once / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Shortly following Thom's awed first sight of Jennet, the two fall mutually in love; as with Thom's parents, the attraction is implied to be innate and inevitable.
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Once / int_acefe49d	type	Spark Fairy
Once / int_acefe49d	comment	Spark Fairy: The smaller faeries initially appear as variously coloured points of light, although, within, Thom later discerns tiny winged figures.
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Once / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Once / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Nell, on the first hint the faerefolkis are looking out for Thom. The succubus, just before the smaller faeries arrive.
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Once	hasFeature	Once / int_ad1db87c
Once / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Once / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: On failure to scare off a surprisingly bold magpie... Following the confrontation with the succubus...
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Once / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_ae3d6438
Once / int_b2d8059f	type	Innocent Aliens
Once / int_b2d8059f	comment	Innocent Aliens: According to Jennet, interstellar visitors, whose vehicles traverse such dimensions as those of the faerefolkis, are wary of contact with humans, and zoom off when they realise they're being watched.
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Once / int_b2d8059f	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_b2d8059f
Once / int_b39d5719	type	Sadist
Once / int_b39d5719	comment	Sadist: Nell, enraged by Thom's recent secret venture into her house - despite herself having rummaged around in Little Bracken - leaves a jar at his door, which unleashes a seemingly infinite horde of spiders.
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Once / int_b39d5719	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_b39d5719
Once / int_b475abfb	type	Gut Feeling
Once / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: As taught by his mother, Thom is reminded of the "inner voice": an unimpeachable awareness, innate to all, and distinct from the matter it inhabits.
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Once / int_b475abfb	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_b475abfb
Once / int_b5a2fa66	type	Fright Deathtrap
Once / int_b5a2fa66	comment	Fright Death Trap: Attempted magically on Sir Russell by Nell. It doesn't end well for her.
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Once / int_b5a2fa66	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_b5a2fa66
Once / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
Once / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: An ancient book, previously owned by the cottage's past acquaintances of the faerefolkis, is used by the smaller faeries as a portal.
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Once / int_bb03c099	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_bb03c099
Once / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Once / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Nell, and possibly Katy.
Once / int_bd0230fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_bd0230fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_bd0230fb
Once / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
Once / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: To Thom, Rigwit's speech is, at first, barely intelligibly fast. On sensory adjustment to Rigwit's dimensional orientation, the brownie's speech becomes slower, yet flavoured with Old English. Further adjustment allows Thom's subconscious clearer interpretation.
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Once / int_bf487e2b	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_bf487e2b
Once / int_c3a57274	type	True Craftsman
Once / int_c3a57274	comment	True Craftsman: Thom's lifelong fascination with wood nurtured a fastidious devotion to carpentry.
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Once / int_c3a57274	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_c3a57274
Once / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Once / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: A figure called the Diabolus, "greatest demon of all," is summoned by Nell. It doesn't end well for her.
Once / int_c3bafbce	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_c3bafbce	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_c3bafbce
Once / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Once / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Hugo has always faintly reminded Thom of Toad of Toad Hall. Sudden protrusion from the forest soil of grimy, scaly hands reminds an astonished Thom of late-night horror movies - he may be thinking of The Plague of the Zombies and the poster for The Evil Dead (1981). Rigwit's appearance is explicitly contrasted to that of a Disney character. An Icelandic singer, confirmed by Herbert to be BjÃ¶rk, is said to have been an undine who became human. Having drugged her with aphrodisiac orchid roots, Nell addresses Katy as "my pretty" - and, at the "witchhag utterance", almost laughs. As the effect of the orchid roots wears off, Nell's crazed lust reminds Katy of Rochester's mad wife. The climax, in which Nell's overzealous conjuring rouses a demonic manifestation, somewhat recalls The Devil Rides Out. On departure to the Waiting Place, Jennet leaves Thom with the message "expect me." Herbert later noted this to be a deliberate nod to the autograph inscriptions of Margaret Hamilton.
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Once / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_c75df49a
Once / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
Once / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: Jonathan Bleeth, original heir to Castle Bracken, whilst serving in Northern Ireland, was killed by an IRA bomb before Thom was born.
Once / int_c83a589c	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_c83a589c	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_c83a589c
Once / int_c92bd7ed	type	Spiders Are Scary
Once / int_c92bd7ed	comment	Spiders Are Scary: Never more so than when literally thousands of them magically swamp your house. Thom hates the buggers.
Once / int_c92bd7ed	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_c92bd7ed	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_c92bd7ed
Once / int_c9d9a85f	type	Hot Witch
Once / int_c9d9a85f	comment	Hot Witch: Nell.
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Once / int_c9d9a85f	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_c9d9a85f
Once / int_cb1a6514	type	Country Mouse
Once / int_cb1a6514	comment	Country Mouse: Following initial unease, Thom is very glad to be back in his childhood home.
Once / int_cb1a6514	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_cb1a6514	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_cb1a6514
Once / int_cd16953f	type	House Fey
Once / int_cd16953f	comment	House Fey: Brownies "like looking after homes, especially when the owners are away."
Once / int_cd16953f	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_cd16953f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Once / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Once / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: By Herbert's standards, although that's not saying much...
Once / int_ce6555f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_ce6555f0	featureConfidence	1.0
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Once / int_cffd35ee	type	Crop Circles
Once / int_cffd35ee	comment	Crop Circles: Were made first by "ufoses," then by pixies, and then, to Jennet's amusement, humans.
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Once / int_cffd35ee	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_cffd35ee
Once / int_d6de6609	type	In Harmony with Nature
Once / int_d6de6609	comment	In Harmony with Nature: Nell's masterful grasp of natural remedies. Faerefolkis affinity with the ecosystem earns mastery of curative properties. They yearn for a day when abandonment of materialism will bring humanity back to their acquaintance, and to the "grand consciousness."
Once / int_d6de6609	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_d6de6609	featureConfidence	1.0
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Once / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Once / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: A fleet of smaller faeries at times come to the rescue.
Once / int_d9e9ad7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_d9e9ad7e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Once / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
Once / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Wicked Witch: Nell; a sultry practitioner of natural remedies and self-professed healer, who, through diabolical ritual, wields sinister influence.
Once / int_dd3d1f69	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_dd3d1f69	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_dd3d1f69
Once / int_dd46397e	type	Just Desserts
Once / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: The magpie with which Nell has sinister affinity, after forcing Katy into a road collision, is torn apart and devoured by crows.
Once / int_dd46397e	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_dd46397e	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_dd46397e
Once / int_dd7127d1	type	Benevolent Precursors
Once / int_dd7127d1	comment	Benevolent Precursors: The faerefolkis somewhat resemble this, being inter-dimensional beings whose nurture of nature enables Earth to support life.
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Once / int_dd7127d1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Once / int_df4d868c	type	Battleaxe Nurse
Once / int_df4d868c	comment	Battleaxe Nurse: Nell, a trained, if unorthodox nurse, deliberately keeps Sir Russell alive, so as to force amendment of his will to leave to Hugo the Bracken Estate. She later, with magically invoked phantasms, tries to cause Sir Russell fatal heart failure.
Once / int_df4d868c	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_df4d868c	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_df4d868c
Once / int_e1799b03	type	Alchemic Elementals
Once / int_e1799b03	comment	Alchemic Elementals: Undines are "waterfays," and seem to inhabit the forest lake.
Once / int_e1799b03	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_e1799b03	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_e1799b03
Once / int_e43130c1	type	Interrupted Intimacy
Once / int_e43130c1	comment	Interrupted Intimacy: Thom encounters Jennet masturbating with the aid of several smaller faeries. Unable to look away, he quickly feels guilty, though she doesn't seem to mind at all.
Once / int_e43130c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_e43130c1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Once / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Once / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: On condition that Bethan make young Thom forget all knowledge of the faerefolkis, Sir Russell agreed to take charge of the boy's welfare - although Bethan did hide the Portal Book on the cottage's top shelf, seemingly for Thom to someday find.
Once / int_e7b0229a	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_e7b0229a	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_e7b0229a
Once / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Once / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: Maliciously inclined faerefolkis work their mischief by night.
Once / int_e8b0f099	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_e8b0f099	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_e8b0f099
Once / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Once / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Nell keeps Hugo in desirous thrall. Defied by Thom, who, while initially attracted to her, finds her advances unnervingly overbearing.
Once / int_eae41a	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_eae41a	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_eae41a
Once / int_ebfaf704	type	Scary Stinging Swarm
Once / int_ebfaf704	comment	Scary Stinging Swarm: On early venture into the woods, emergence from beneath the soil of numerous fearsome earthen heads has Thom confusedly flee, whereupon he accidentally disturbs a wasp nest...
Once / int_ebfaf704	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_ebfaf704	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_ebfaf704
Once / int_f2d8e3c2	type	Evil Plan
Once / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: Nell aims to magically acquire the Bleeth inheritance, and eliminate Thom, whom she anticipates to be a future threat.
Once / int_f2d8e3c2	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_f2d8e3c2	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_f2d8e3c2
Once / int_fe1b2e75	type	Bigger on the Inside
Once / int_fe1b2e75	comment	Bigger on the Inside: A jar left at the cottage door by Nell, which contains a seemingly infinite amount of spiders, somewhat TARDIS-like, to contain a dimensional portal to some ethereal realm.
Once / int_fe1b2e75	featureApplicability	1.0
Once / int_fe1b2e75	featureConfidence	1.0
Once	hasFeature	Once / int_fe1b2e75
Once / int_ffd816e7	type	Everything Trying to Kill You
Once / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: As a storm cloud looms directly over Castle Bracken, Thom, to aid Sir Russell against the diabolical forces within, is hindered by seemingly strategic blasts of wind; fiendish soil-dwelling dwarfs, and at the bridge, the flooded river leaps at him in deliberate torrents.
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