LAITY, KATHRYN wrote:
> I don't think it goes any further back than Arthur Machen and Novel of
>the White Powder
>
I used to be a great fan of Machen, and I even reread the Novel of the
White Powder a couple years ago, but I didn't recall seeing it in there.
When I did a search, I found the same reference you did and was
surprised. Yet this term seems familiar to me from another context. It's
right on the tip of my brain.
Harry Roth
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