A Bit Of Maths: Witchcraft In Lincoln’s Inn

The first murder in ‘The Invisible Code’ was intended to echo traditional ideas of image-magic, that is, the making and mutilating of waxen voodoo dolls. Other ways of placing curses on people involved putting something at the location of the victim, from chalked runic marks and placing witch bottles to dead animals and ‘cursed’ objects.

Lincoln’s [...]