# Ebeneezor Prim — Lud-in-the-Mist character guide

> Ebeneezor Prim in Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ebeneezor

**First appearance:** 0016-xiv-dead-in-the-eye-of-the-law

## Who they are

A town official who enforces anti-fairy laws with zeal.

## In the story

### [IX: Panic and the Silent People](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/chapters/ix-panic-and-the-silent-people)

Ebeneezor Prim does not come to wind the clocks himself, sending a sanctimonious apprentice instead, signaling the family's social decline.

### [XI: A Stronger Antidote Than Reason](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/chapters/xi-a-stronger-antidote-than-reason)

Sends his apprentice instead of coming himself to wind clocks, indicating social disapproval of Nathaniel.

### [XV: “Ho, Ho, Hoh!”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/lud_in_the_mist_se/chapters/xv-ho-ho-hoh)

Clockmaker who watches the effigy burning; his apprentice disappears after being suspected of fairy connections, and he forbids his daughters from mentioning him.

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