heard as with the mind's ear the blasphemous domdaniel of cacophony.īritish author Angie Sage used the name DomDaniel (styled this way) to name the main foe of her fantasy novel series Septimus Heap.ĭomdaniel is the headquarters of the Spanish Inquisition in Neil Gaiman's graphic novel Marvel 1602 and includes large caverns. Lovecraft used Domdaniel in the short story He (1925), as follows. In T.H White's book The Sword in the Stone Merlin, before his famous duel of magic with the witch Madam Mim, says: 'Now we shall see how a double first at Dom-Daniel avails against the private tuition of my master Bleise'. Nathaniel Hawthorne used Domdaniel in his romance The House of the Seven Gables: 'Hepzibah put her hand into her pocket, and presented the urchin, her earliest and staunchest customer, with silver enough to people the Domdaniel cavern of his interior with as various a procession of quadrupeds as passed into the ark'. But the youth Thalaba accomplishes the destruction of the magicians in the final volume of the poem despite their efforts to kill him and his surviving family. He was selected by lot to hunt down Thalaba and slay him. One of the magicians named by Southey as dwelling in Domdaniel was Abdaldar. It had been prophesied that the spirits of the Domdaniel were destined to be destroyed by a member of that family, so they sought to put an end to it. The hero of Southey's story, Thalaba, is the son of Hodeirah and the last surviving member of his family.

Robert Southey later used Domdaniel in his multi-volume oriental poem Thalaba the Destroyer (1797). In this hall, the ruler Zatanai held his court, which included the magician Maugraby and his students. It was described as being located in the sea near Tunis. JSTOR ( September 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭomdaniel is a fictional cavernous hall at the bottom of the ocean where evil magicians, spirits, and gnomes meet.ĭomdaniel was first mentioned in the continued story of the Arabian Nights by Dom Chaves and Cazotte (1788–1793).If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline.

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