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POn her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria #8211; the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport #8211; is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. He has fallen in love #8211; and it is not long until Sierva Maria joins him in his fevered misery. Unsettling and indelible, iOf Love and Other Demons/i is an evocative, majestic tale of the most universal experiences known to woman and man.