This is where he tells us about his Daemon, a
kind of personal muse who he says inspired his writing. He tells us some very
interesting and significant things about this supernatural being.
The inspirational anecdote in summary is that
a man told Kipling a horror story that he said was a personal experience.
Kipling wrote it up but something stopped him from sending it to a publisher.
He was really glad about this when, ‘by chance’, he found the story, identical
in every way, in an old magazine. He gives credit to his Daemon for preventing
a charge of plagiarism, which would not be good for such a famous writer’s
reputation and would have been very stressful for him.
This may sound far-fetched, but other people
have had similar experiences although they may not attribute helpful inner
promptings and warnings to a daemon but, for example, to Providence, the
Universe or their subconscious minds. I have given examples of such positive
inner guidance in various articles.
