" If ye see the laird, tell him what ye hear; tell him this makes the twelve hunner and nineteen time that Jennet Clouston has called down the curse on him and his house, byre and stable, man, guest and master, wife, miss, or bairn—black, black be their fall.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped "

― Cornelia Funke , Inkheart / Inkspell / Inkdeath (The Inkheart Trilogy #1-3)