THE DARK ARTS
“Ah, but which devil? There are so many, aren’t there?” asks the Sheriff of Nottingham of his brother, the Abbot of St Mary’s, while discussing the dressed- in- black Baron Simon De Belleme ( Anthony Valentine). Certainly, the Hooded Man encounters many human servants of supernatural evil: most notably, the sensually dressed devil- worshipping nuns led by Morgwyn of Ravenscar ( Rula Lenska), bringing together the seven “magical” Swords of Wayland — including Robin’s own sword, Albion — to “break Lucifer’s chains”; or the pagan sorcerer Gulnar ( Richard O’Brien), who at one point creates a “Golum” doppelganger of Robin – but with giveaway bad teeth!