The Night Queen is beautiful, dangerous, seductive and wicked. She is the Queen of Hell. For did Lilith not pronounce "I am Queen of Hell. All who would survive will serve me. Any who deny me will regret it." Lilith, the Queen of Hell and Mistress of Demons, was Adams first wife, and it was Lilith who visited Eve in the form of a sly serpent to free her from her prison of ignorance by feeding her the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. Here is a poem about a mortal man utterly in her thrall, as all men come to be when faced with Lilith in her human form. The word Lilith even means night creature. The definition of Succubus absolutely personifies Lilith, the seductive female who ravishes men in their sleep. In the Renaissance, Michelangelo portrayed Lilith as a half-woman, half-serpent, coiled around the Tree of Knowledge. Later, her beauty would captivate the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti.Her enchanted hair, he wrote, was threaded with the first gold. Irish novelist James Joyce cast her as the �¢??patron of abortions. Modern feminists celebrate her bold struggle for independence from Adam.

Gimlet-A fresh lime and vodka cocktail, always Green.

Aubrey Beardsley:
An artist who's drawings were often used by avante-garde writers to illustrate their work. The women were dangerously beautiful and pulsing with sexuality. After his Salome illustrations had made him well known as one of the Decadents, Beardsley became the art editor of two Fin de Siecle literary magazines, first the Yellow Book, and then The Savoy. Beardsley worked on the first five issues of the Yellow Book, but was fired when his name became involved with the Wilde scandal.

Greengage-A type of small green plum, tart to the palate.

Ambergris- a rare and deeply animal scent used in very exclusive perfumes, extracted from the digestive system of sperm whales. Alone it has a marine, almost a slightly fecal odour. However, as it ages, it acquires a sweet, earthy scent and this is why it was so valued in perfumes because when mixed with other scents, it becomes musky and can create some deeply exotic seductive oriental tones.

A forked tongue: is a tongue split into two distinct tines at the tip; this is a feature common to many species of reptiles.This increased ability to sense chemicals has allowed for heightened abilities to identify prey, recognise kin, choose mates, and more.

There are appearances of the phrase "forked tongue" in English literature, either in reference to actual snakes' tongues, or as a metaphor for untruthfulness, such as a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes, who died in 1626:

"And he hath the art of cleaving. He shewed it in the beginning, when he made the Serpent, lingnam bisulcam, a forked tongue, to speake that, which was contrary to his knowledge and meaning, They should not die; and as hee did the Serpents, so hee can doe others."

The phrase also appears in Milton's Paradise Lost:

"According to his Doom: He would have spoke, But Hiss for Hiss return'd with forked Tongue To forked Tongue, for now were all transform'd..."

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