#“read the Gospels like a good Christian instead of this popularist Arthurian drivel”

[liminalpsych]

"Whenever it happened that he could not withstand the insults of these unclean spirits, the Gospel of St. John was placed on his lap and the spirits vanished at once, fluttering away like birds. If afterwards, however, Geoffrey Arthur's History of the Kings of Britain were placed on his lap instead, the demons would land in greater numbers not only all over his body but all over the book as well, settling in for longer than usual and being even more annoying."

Gerald of Wales, The Journey Through Wales (Itinerarium Kambriae), 1.5, 1188 C.E.

I am dying, he's so mad about Geoffrey's book