IV thought - SPOILER

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:17 AM, Tore Rye Andersen wrote:

> John Bailey:
>
>> Just did a quick wikipedia check on Amethyst too - "The name comes
>> from the Ancient Greek a- ("not") and methustos ("intoxicated"), a
>> reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from
>> drunkenness; the ancient Greeks and Romans wore amethyst and made
>> drinking vessels of it in the belief that it would prevent
>> intoxication."
>> Makes the baby-born-hooked-on-smack scenario even sadder.
>
> Great find! Apparently names do carry some magic, then, since the
> heroin baby does turn out to be released from her parents' drug
> habits. Cool orange juice is certainly more benign than heroin-laced
> breast milk.

Speaking of names that carry magic: Sortilège—The act of divining the  
future by casting lots, also Sorcery; witchcraft. Middle English,  
derived from old French via Medieval Latin sortilegium, from  
sortilegus, diviner : Latin sors, sort-, lot + Latin legere, to read.

see: http://www.answers.com/topic/sortilege