Ministers of Evil–Sir Lyle

In S2E8 (24:37), after Sir Lyle has explained to Sir Malcolm, Victor, and Sembene the entirety of the prophesy in The Memoirs of the Devil, Sembene says why Vanessa has been selected as the bride of Lucifer. In response, Sir Lyle says this:

“There are old prophesies from prehistory that tell of such ministers of evil. Amunet from the Egyptians. Lilith from the Talmud. The Nordic Hella. The Celtic Macha. Mara from the Hindus. All variations of deities or demigods who were destined to unleash annihilation onto the world”

John 8:44 Why is My Language Unclear to You?

In S2E1, Ethan recites a rendition of John 8:44, when speaking about the history of the Verbis Diablo as a corruption of angelic speech.

Ethan says:

“Why is my language unclear to thee? Because you now belong to your father, the Devil”.

The real Biblical passage states:

“Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.”

Your Road May be Difficult, but Mine is Doomed–Ethan Chandler

In the finale of season 2, (52:32), Ethan reads the letter he left for Vanessa in voice over, as the audience is shown where we are leaving all the main characters until next season. This is what the letter said:

Dear Vanessa,

Your many kindnesses, I will always carry with me. Such generosity has not been apart of my life, and I thank for your affection and understanding. In my most frightened and lonely moments you were there. And such light you brought to me. But I am made for the dark. This we both know. I am fit for only one place, and should have been there long ago. Deep in the cold clay on a forgotten hill. Your road may be difficult, but mine is doomed. So we walk alone.

Written with love,

Ethan

Never Again Will I Kneel to Any Man–Lily

In S2E8 (38:50), Lily reveals to John Clare that she knows about her Creator, Victor, and the lies that Victor and John Clare have told her for a long time. She gives a speech on the treatment of women at the hands of men:

LILY: You want to walk in the village, and hold my hand. When people are cruel, you want me to love you even more. Do I hurt you? You pathetic creature. How can you imagine that I could care for you? Does that face belong alongside this? Doesn’t the world smile on us. Don’t we make a beautiful couple, thee and me? Shall we wander the pastures and recite your fucking poetry to the fucking cows? You are blind. Like all other men.

JOHN CLARE: And you are unlike all other women.

LILY: You tell me how. We flatter our men with our pain. We bow before them. We make ourselves dolls for their amusement. We lose our dignity in corsets and high shoes and gossip and the slavery of marriage. And our reward for this service? The back of the hand. The face turned to the pillow. The bloody aching cunt as you force us onto your beds to take your fat, heaving bodies. You drag us into the allies, my lad (Lily’s Irish accent emerges) and cram yourselves into our mouths for 2 bob. When your not beating us senseless. When we’re not bloody from the eyes and the mouth and the ass and the cunt.

(Lily’s english accent comes back) Never again will I kneel to any man. Now they shall kneel to me. As you do, monster. My monster. My beautiful corpse. How clever he’s been our Creator. But our little God has brought forth not angels, but demons. Thee and me. And what shall we do with this power, undead thing? You’re a thoughtful man, a philosopher even, so tell me, why do we exist? Why have we been chosen? Tell me.

JOHN CLARE: I don’t know.

LILY: Is it to suffer?

JOHN CLARE: Yes.

LILY: Must it be?

LILY: How can it be other? We long for that we cannot have.

LILY:  Women? I’ll bring you a dozen, we’ll fuck them together. Me? Then you shall have me. I want you. I want a man unlike all other men. My brother. My equal. I’ll take you by this beautiful, white, dead hand and lead you to my bed right now. I’ll bleed for you. I’ll love you. For your sadness and your poetry and your passion and your rage and your infinite, luxurious ugliness. I’ll lick your sins away. And when Victor comes home, we’ll put our hands around his throat together. And watch him die. And then this will be our home. And then, what then, undead thing? We were created to rule, my love. And the blood of mankind will water our garden. Us and our kin and our children and our generations. We are the conquers. We are the pure blood. We are steel and sinew both. We are the next thousand years. We are the dead. No being who ever was, or ever will be, shall love you like I do.

 

 

 

You’ll Never Grow up Now–Lily

In the cold open to S2E8, Memento Mori, Lily lays with the dead body of the man that she strangled in the previous episode, and has this soliloquy:

“You’re a very silly boy. That’s what I like about you. Men should always remain boys at heart. Filled with childish games, with Snakes and Ladders, and Blindman’s Bluff. How sad that boys feel they must grow up. You’ll never grow up now.”

Welcome to the Night, Vanessa–Ethan Chandler

In S2E7 (44:29), Ethan comes back to the cabin on the moor, after unsuccessfully trying to kill Sir Geoffrey before Vanessa did it herself, with dark magic. Ethan is worried for Vanessa’s soul, and it comes out in anger, as he lectures her on what it is like to kill another person:

ETHAN: Do you feel better now? Now that you’re a murderess? I suppose that’s what you learned here, isn’t it? From your nice old lady friend. How to kill babies. How to kill men? You do belong here.

VANESSA: I know what I’ve done.

ETHAN: Do you? Do you know what it is to walk with someone’s body tied around your neck for the rest of your goddamed life? Do you know what that is, little girl? Let me tell you about it. First time is hard. I’m sure you cried a bit. Don’t worry, that’ll pass. Second time is easier. Third time, you don’t blink. Then its all just repetition. You don’t cry anymore. You don’t even remember when you used to cry. You’re alive and they’re dead. Fuck ’em!

VANESSA: Stop it!

ETHAN: You’ll never get your soul back. Not ever. Do you understand that?

VANESSA: Yes.

ETHAN: Welcome to the night, Vanessa.

 

 

Things Become Other Things–Sembene

In S2E7, before the title screen, Sembene sits with Ethan the morning after Ethan has shown him what he becomes during the full moon. Ethan cannot fully remember what happens to him, and needs Sembene to explain it. In order to do this, Sembene tells Ethan this:

“Things become other things. The leopard consumes the monkey, and becomes leopard and monkey. The crocodile consumes the leopard, and becomes crocodile, leopard, and monkey. I have seen this. The shamans in my mountains call it Uchawi Mabadiliko, the changing from one skin to another. The ones so cursed do not always fully remember it, this becoming. Is it a sickness? Is it a blessing, the purpose of which we cannot yet see? I say this is what it is. For I see you, my friend, Ethan Chandler, past the leopard and the crocodile and the monkey, and the wolf.”

I Am by John Clare

In S2E5 (33:44), titled Above the Vaulted Sky, Vanessa sits and converses with John Clare in the underground homeless shelter and soup kitchen once more. They talk of the poet, John Clare. John Clare says he has always been moved by John Clare’s (the poet) story, because he was considered freakish for his small stature, and due to this, he probably felt an affinity with the “outcasts and broken things”. John Clare (the creature) then begins to recite I Am:

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows;

My friends forsake me like a memory lost:

I am the self-consumer of my woes—

They rise and vanish in oblivious host,

Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes

And yet I am, and live—like vapours tossed

Vanessa then joins in, reciting this part of the poem:

I long for scenes where man hath never trod

A place where woman never smiled or wept

There to abide with my Creator, God,

And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,

Untroubling and untroubled where I lie

Vanessa and John Clare say the last line together:

The grass below—above the vaulted sky.

Ephesian 6:12

In the beginning of S2E4, titled Evil Spirits in Heavenly Places, Ethan has insisted that Vanessa tell the others her story about the Cut-Wife, and that they are fighting against Nightcomers. Ethan quotes a rendition of Ephesian 6:12. He says:

“For thee are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against mighty powers in this dark realm”

Then Vanessa finishes the verse, saying:

“And against evil spirits in Heavenly places”

However, the actual verse from Ephesian 6:12 is:

“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

Leviticus 20:27 Medium and Necromancers

In S2E3 (44:28), the pastor of the moor town, and Sir Geoffrey gather the townspeople into a pub to convince them to burn Joan Clayton alive. In order to convince and rile the crowd, the pastor quotes Leviticus 20:27

“A man or woman who is a medium or necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them”