“One of the big differences between us and our ancestors is that they lived

in an enchanted world, and we do not. That is to say, they believed in gods

and fairies; that the river had its own divinity; that relics and the bones

of martyrs were charged with divine energy. The divine and human realms

were permeable, always flowing and interrupting the other. Our world isn’t

like that. Our world is disenchanted, un-magicked.”