Gremlins have an ancient pedigree, whether they know it or not. Credited with airplane problems during the Second World War, these meddlers in technology had an older cousin in the demon named Titivilus. Titivilus was a demon said to be responsible for errors in the works of scribes. Long before the printing press hit Europe, manuscripts were copied by hand, of course. Anyone who works with Bibles, for example, knows that no ancient manuscript exists without errors. But scribes copied more than Bibles, and anyone who has tried to copy an entire manuscript knows that errors always creep in. ...
