Some offbeat oddities from the new novel The Witch of Greenwich Village:

- Meditation, acclaimed for its ability to clear the mind and promote creativity was, in primitive times, used for revolting purposes and is still employed by obscure cults for obscene rituals.

- There are sixteen chapters in the Old Testament that mention dreams.

Overall there are about seventy references to drams in the Bible.

- Plato and Aristotle thought dreams prophetic; Cicero was a skeptic.

- The oldest dream book extant is an Egyptian papyrus by Medineth, dated 2000,BC.

- There are eight documented cases of people who dreamed of the sinking of the Titanic before it happened.

- The night before it took place Lincoln dreamed he was going to be assassinated.

- Dickens dreamed he was going to meet a lady named Miss Napier and that she would be wearing a red shawl. Who shows up the very next evening, red shawl and all? - you got it - good old Miss Napier.

- In 1929 Edgar Cayce dreamed beforehand that the stock market would crash.

- The renowned psychiatrist Carl Jung believed that dreams foretold the future and put people in touch with "the collective unconscious of the human species." ? Adler emphasized the "anticipatory and compensatory function of dreams." ?

If you found the above interesting and if you liked Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Other and Burnt Offerings please visit www.thewitchofgreenwichvillage.com for a synopsis and an excerpt from The Witch of Greenwich Village, by Frank O'Donnell The book is also available on line as an E Book.