title: The Magical Worlds of Narnia: A Treasury of Myths, Legends and Fascinating Facts
author:  David Colbert 
description: Formerly a head writer of television's <i>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire</i>, and an editorial director at HarperCollins, David Colbert is best known as author of the acclaimed <i>Eyewitness</i> history series. A graduate of Brown University, he studied anthropology and mythology and has spent much of his life in libraries.
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  IN THE DARK CASTLE:
  
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  ## CHAPTER ELEVEN
  
  WHEN the meal (which was pigeon pie, cold ham, salad, and cakes) had been  
  brought, and all had drawn their chairs up to the table and begun, the  
  Knight continued:  
    
  "You must understand, friends, that I know nothing of who I was and whence  
  I came into this Dark World. I remember no time when I was not dwelling, as  
  now, at the court of this all but heavenly Queen; but my thought is that  
  she saved me from some evil enchantment and brought me hither of her  
  exceeding bounty. (Honest Frogfoot, your cup is empty. Suffer me to refill  
  it.) And this seems to me the likelier because even now I am bound by a  
  spell, from which my Lady alone can free me. Every night there comes an  
  hour when my mind is most horribly changed, and, after my mind, my body.  
  For first 