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The Scottish Play

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jonas:

--- Quote from: Talby16 on January 10, 2018, 03:41:06 PM ---I really like this theory. It is the first time I have heard it. What other eldest mantles have we been introduced to? I can think of Eldest Gruff, Cat Sith, and the Eldest Fetch. Any others I'm missing?

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Idk but i'd think perhaps Talos or Korrick... Talos the more likely, but idk they are for sure. think i'll start trying to figure out which ones Cat Sith and EF are by comparison.

Talby16:

--- Quote from: jonas on January 10, 2018, 04:18:05 PM ---Idk but i'd think perhaps Talos or Korrick... Talos the more likely, but idk they are for sure. think i'll start trying to figure out which ones Cat Sith and EF are by comparison.

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If it helps at all, to my eyes Sith had a controlled rage about him while Fetch seemed to be shrouded in malevolence.

Kindler:

--- Quote from: WereElephant on January 10, 2018, 01:03:55 PM ---There is a superstition about saying the name of the Shakespearian play "Macbeth" out loud in a theater. Specifically, that it will bring bad luck. It isapparently referred to as the Scottish Play or the Bard's Play in a theater, except during the play itself. Any certain Faerie Queens or vassals thereof have anything to do with this?

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Sounds like the kind of thing Lea would do. Celtic lore on the Leanansidhe is that she inspires artistic creation at the cost of madness (and, you know, premature death), and somewhere Jim has stated that she drank the blood of artists (as far as I can remember). Makes me think maybe she had something to do with the 27 Curse among musicians, or what made Lord Byron the whacked-out nutjob he was (for instance, adopting a pet bear because it wasn't specifically banned by Cambridge University after they made him send his dog home, or the various exotic wild animals he gave free roam over his estate, or the "fleet" of toy ships he "commanded" in the open water of the large lake on his estate, or... well, he was just nuts).

The Scottish Play Curse has an origin of dubious provenance among the Three Witches scene, during which, it is said, actual magic was performed originally. Or maybe it has something to do with the fact that Hecate is a character in the play, but most performances leave her character out. The triple-sided Goddess of the Crossroads is, according to Dresden's interpretation of the statuary in Hades's Vault, the current Faerie Queens; perhaps they laid a collective curse on the play for reasons of their own.

Talby16:
I agree that a curse on the Scottish Play seems very Fae like.

wardenferry419:
But, which Fae court did it?

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