Footnotes

1. For a taste of some of the incredible controversy surrounding Ravings... in the decades following its initial printing, the interested reader should seek out LaFevre, Antoine, Partisans dans le sacrifice: Tellsos et son monde demonique, Paris, Editions Lassoins, 1807; Raelsbom, Edgar, Prophecy from the east? a Madman and his calculated subterranean journeys, London, Fortis, 1825, and interestingly, the 4th chapter of Saint-Ives d'Alveydre, Mission de l'Inde en Europe, Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1886.

2. Brauschmann in his controversial Annalen von dem Ungarischen Geheimnisvollen in 1895, as well as d'Alveydre (ibid.) spoke of a number of unverified Eastern European accounts of the actual existence of a Msniwar language and its associated writing system, suggesting that Tellsos (and later, his imitators) did not invent but rather discovered the mystical language so crucial to understanding Tellsos' novel.

3. Of course, Tellsos aesthetically rich tale could easily lend itself to other media as well. In her Early analogues to majick in film (1931), S. Verzstolla speaks of a plan by the "magic lantern" pioneer and occult afficionado Rains Carguine to finance the film pioneers the Meliere brothers in a bizarre "multimedia" interpretation of Tellsos' work, using the brothers' nascent moving picture technology, illuminated human skeleton "puppets" and possibly even involving drugging the unsuspecting audience to "enhance the journey."

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