by A. Strugatsky, B. Strugatsky
'Monsters are given birth by dreaming mind'.
...The old healer woman looked at us.
'There was a time when I could also do this, these dogs, with my sheer will. But now I am old and my bones - they long to join the Earth.
Your man is Aggel. I did not see him do these things, but I know he did. He has been taken to the utter limit by other people.'
'Angel, you mean?' I asked.
She laughed. 'You poor bastard, you've never heard the word, have you?
From the beginning of times mankind has created devils among themselves. Then humans have tried to expel them with exorcism and the cross.
So it has been from the beginning of times.'
