IV thought - SPOILER

[John Bailey]

Another easy one (too easy really) - Blatnoyd. Google it.

IV taught me a little about Russian history, too!

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Robin
Landseadel<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
>