It is discovered that the vampires have become weakened, have lost their ability to fly and instead of craving blood, are now becoming desperate for tea and biscuits. Carpe Jugulum is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty third in the Discworld series. The main characters of this fiction, humor story are Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax. Discworld Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. Rob Anybody: He is the Big Man of the Chalk clan and is married to Jeannie of the Long Lake clan. When the vampires have been vanquished, Pratchett says, "Oats's gaze went out across the haze, and the forest, and the purple mountains." In Carpe Jugulum, Igor's uncle works for a mad scientist and is good a brain juggling. The title is a play on the Latin phrase carpe diem ('seize [literally, "pluck"] the day') and 'Jugular vein' - in other words 'Go for the throat'. Carpe Jugulum is also about duality so it is somewhat amusing that I am in two minds about this novel. The Feegles' blue colour suggest Smurffs. Igor is resentful to the modernised Vampires who have constantly ridiculed his attempts to keep their castle in the same way as the former Count Bela de Magpyr, a far more traditional vampire. When Vlad takes Agnes through the hall of family portraits (a staple of old English nobility homes) we get a history of the development of the vampire in literature. One to ten, with regional variations on the words goes: 'Yan, tan, tethera, methera, pip, sethera, lethera, hovera, dovera, dick.' Granny Weatherwax arrives (having been carried by Oats) and reveals that instead of her being made into a vampire, the vampires have become 'Weatherwaxed'. They're rather piquant!" Igor's line: "They've killed Thcrapth! Terry Pratchett – Carpe Jugulum Audiobook Free Online. Carpe Jugulum PDF book (Discworld) (Discworld Series) Read Online or Free Download in ePUB, PDF or MOBI eBooks. Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but wishes he had an axe. We don't have an article named Characters/CarpeJugulum, exactly. which is a variation on Nietzsche line "That which does not kill me, makes me stronger" from Twilight of the Idols. 'Will ye no' have a huge dram and a burned bannock while yer waiting?- The wee dram is whisky and burned bannock (Scottish bread) is a reference to the Battle of Bannockburn a victory of the Scots over the English. From Discworld & Terry Pratchett Wiki. Children already know that dragons exist. pokes fun at the Frank Sinatra album called 'Old Blue Eyes is Back'. from The Wizard of Oz. 'Won't work. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. Japanese fishermen use glass floats to hold up their nets and the floats often wash up on shore in foreign countries (notably off the west coast of North America) where they are prized by collectors. but it is also likely playing on the name of Jimi Hendrix's song Purple Haze. He's altogether too keen on it. Later on in Carpe Jugulum during the final battle Nanny and Igor run out of lemons with which to attack the vampires. Granny appears destined to become a vampire, but afterwards she recovers in the care of Oats. 'It's a Johnson,' she (Nanny Ogg) breathed. Snow glowed briefly on the mountain slopes when it crackled overhead. The count says, "Remember -- that which does not kill us can only make us stronger." Pratchett's methods, while seemingly ridiculous in the extreme are not much of an exaggeration from those in the "real world". The two witches compare counting rhymes involving magpies, Nanny's version similar to the Scots version given in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable: Igor, the Magpyr family servant is a parody of the typical servant found in horror movies like Frankenstein. is a takeoff on the reoccurring gag in the adult cartoon South Park In every episode, Kenny is killed in some implausible way after which Kyle and Stan exchange the comment, "Oh my god! Performance 5 out of 5 stars. Amusing to me anyway. They've got style and fancy waistcoats. When Magrat says that Igor seems to be carrying a torch for her (in this case both a figurative and literal one). The reference to bathing in the blood of 400 virgins is told of the Hungarian princess Erzsebet Bathory (1560-1614), who believed that it would keep her young; -her name is often associated with vampire stories. 'An' b'side, she'll gi'us uskabarch muckell.' The book has been awarded with, and many others. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future. A family of modernist vampires from Uberwald attend the ceremony and quickly and painlessly take over the castle, in part by using mind control on all in attendance. is supposedly from an old Gaelic counting system based on 20 like the unit "score" and which was used throughout the country from early times and is still used today in parts of Northumbria and Scotland for counting sheep and stitches in knitting. Average Customer Ratings. Overall 5 out of 5 stars. 'Buffaloeth,' said Igor, unlocking another door. Tonkers in urban slang means homosexual male. The "gnarly ground" is bigger on the inside than on the outside - Pratchett uses this concept many times in his novels. Jump to: navigation, search. 'Gallons.' This is a reference to the line from America the Beautiful, by Katharine Lee Bates: 'For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!' At the end of Carpe Jugulum, Magrat makes the tea, returning her, albeit briefly, to her old role of the maiden, while Granny takes back her role as the crone. While, talking about Granny Weatherwax, the vampire Count and Countess mentions that the Weatherwax women start to hear the clang of the oven door and have to watch on which side their gingerbread is gilded. The fact that Granny Weatherwax doesn't receive an invitation to the baby's naming ceremony (the magpies have stolen it) is a parallel to the story of Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault and retold by the Brothers Grimm where the evil fairy, annoyed at having been left out, curses the baby and puts a spell on her. He longs for the days of the old Count and the old vampire ways when there was always a billowing curtain, a room with an open window, caskets, creaking doors and all the other castle trappings made popular in vampire lore. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Between the vampires and their next meal stand the witches of Lancre: Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat and young Agnes. Anyway, there's not much of a choice.'. And the vampires are intelligent – not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?". After the vampires are defeated at Escrow there is concern from Perdita about taking the children to kill the vampires at the castle. 'Light The Good Light' is probably the Omnian version of 'Fight the Good Fight' (lyrics by John Samuel Bewley Monsell, music by William Boyd. The title of the book is a parody of the phase Carpe Diem ("Seize the day") and roughly translates as "Go for the throat". The Magpyrs and their vampire cohorts are foiled and retreat to their castle for their final stand while Nanny Ogg's son Shawn organizes the attack on the remaining vampires in Lancre. A young warrior wanted to watch the buffalo plunge off the cliff from below. Characters / Carpe Jugulum Go To. The vampires are further horrified when it is revealed that Igor (who considers the loss of his dog to be the last straw) has rebelled against them and brought back the Old Count by pouring blood on his ashes. In Carpe Jugulum, Igor's uncle works for a mad scientist and is good a brain juggling. The line, 'Every day, in every way, we get better and better,' comes from one of the first positive-thinking mantras, coined by Emile Coue (1857-1926), French psychotherapist and pharmacist. King Verence and Queen Magrat of Lancre have … ‐--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, 'But there's werewolves and vampires and-', 'Yes, but not everywhere. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side. I heard about "pyramid selling" only in latter context. ! Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed." These are the show notes and errata for episode 36, “Home Alone, But Vampires“, featuring guest Gillian Cosgriff, discussing the twenty-third Discworld novel, 1998’s Carpe Jugulum. You’ll understand the episode title when you get to about the 1 hour 45 minute mark. The story begins with the christening ceremony of King Verence and Queen Magrat's baby girl, Princess Margaret Note Spelling. This page was last edited on 24 May 2020, at 23:04. Mightily Oats' name is also a play on the Christian sect the Quakers - Quaker Oats being a breakfast cereal whose symbol is a Quaker wearing the traditional black hat as Mightily Oats does. Granny Weatherwax arrives, stumbling and defeated and hardly intimidating, and the vampires succeed in giving her their bite. The three vampires then turn into a flock of magpies and disappear into the darkness of the roof of the castle, while the witches return to Lancre. Granny Weatherwax keeps a glass fishing float to use as a crystal ball. Got any garlic?' The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 296 pages and is available in Hardcover format. Pratchett pokes fun at modern parenting with its belief that one's own child is more advanced than anyone else's and thus the emphasis on giving one's child every advantage by ensuring that one's baby has every opportunity for developing as quickly as possible. The first edition of the novel was published in 1998, and was written by Terry Pratchett. He also appears to have a crush on Nanny. Pratchett says, "They stared into the abyss, which didn't stare back." Granny Weatherwax; Nanny Ogg; Agnes Nitt; Mightily Oats; Magrat Garlick; Verence II; Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre; Count de Magpyr; Bela de Magpyr; Vlad de Magpyr; Lacrimosa de Magpyr; Minor Characters. They munch on garlic, aren't bothered by bright light, cross moving water and are impervious to religious symbols. The hero of the classic 1954 novel I am Legend, the last living human on an earth where everyone else has become a vampire, actually experiments with this possibility. While we don't know his exact thoughts, the last thing to go through his head was... a herd of buffalo. It's a play on the Latin phrase "Carpe Diem" (seize the day). When Nanny and Agnes are investigating Granny's disappearance Agnes says "Good morning, Mister Magpie," - being polite to the bird is a way of avoiding its bad luck. Magpies, like crows are thought to be an evil omen in western cultures and a symbol of magic, witchcraft and prophesy. Magrat packs every conceivable stimulating device for baby Esme to take with them when she and Esme flee the castle with Agnes and Mightily Oaks. 'Ah... Aunt Carmilla...' refers to the book Carmilla, by J. Sheridan LeFanu, which was one of the earliest literary vampire stories, published in 1872, 26 years before Dracula. They cannot cross running water but somehow can get across it in a coach, The line 'Do onions hurt us? Pratchett often uses trolls as sentries on bridges. Edit Page; Inexact title. On the contrary, they had a deep, personal and passionate involvement in it, but instead of asking, ‘Why are we here?’ they asked, ‘Is it going to rain before the harvest?’ OK, this may sound like being purist, but, when in Carpe Jugulum Agnes asks Vlad wheter vampirism is a "pyramid selling system", is she reffering to the one selling included, or just a Ponzi scheme? Granny Weatherwax, one of the witches, is one of the most well-loved characters within the series. The vampires in the portraits progress from the Stryx monster, to the blood bathing princess, to the Byronic hero/villain, to the era of Lugosi and Christopher Lee, to the modern vampires of Ann Rice and Angel of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and later - after this book was written but still within the romantic Gothic genre- Stephanie Meyers' "Twilight" series. There are the witches: young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. This is a play on the modern economic jargon of new world order and hedge funds, lines that are repeated throughout the book. The Magpyr son, Vlad, (a common vampire name coming from the original Dracula - the Transylvanian Prince Vlad the Impaler) is attracted to Agnes because she is able to resist him. Hodgesaargh looks under F in his book of birds but finds it under P. In the same scene, Agnes says "Take that thing out of your mouth, You sound like Mr Punch." 'Masses,' Agnes lied. The vampires are concerned about seeing religious symbols everywhere they look and utter the line; "Lines and crosses and circles... oh, my..." which is a paraphrase of 'Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!' And the vampires are intelligent, with fancy waistcoats and lots of style. Hetty the Hen is a children's song released in 1975 by Mr. Pickwick. is a Pratchett tribute to American singer/songwriter Steve Earle's song 'Copperhead Road'. Dontgonearthe Castle becomes the scene of a final confrontation between the Vampires and united citizens of Escrow and Lancre. King Verance is deposited in a rabbit hole by the Feegles - reminiscent of Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland in the rabbit hole. Nanny says that she doesn't think she could go for a man with a limp. Carpe Jugulum. "You bastards". At the party, the vampires announce that they intend to move into Lancre Castle and take over the country, and due to a strange type of hypnotism everyone considers this to be perfectly acceptable. At the same time, they have taken to wearing normal clothes, staying up until noon and drinking wine. In Carpe Jugulum, it is left ambiguous until the end of the novel what Nanny's intentions are toward Esme and whether she has put her under a spell by taking over her body. Lacrimosa groaned. In Discworld the counting system has come from some migrant shepherds from Uberwald who left it behind them when they moved on. The Magpyr family have made themselves much more formidable enemies than old fashioned vampires by building up tolerance to the normal methods used to defeat vampires. Susan Sto-Helit has the same philosophy when she uses the poker on the monsters under the bed in The Hogfather. 'But until it does, you see, you'll not harm a child, you'll not harm Magrat, you hate the thought of drinking blood, and you won't run because you'll never run from a challenge...' 'What will wear off?' The Magpyrs are very rude to him, and eventually he rebels, helping Magrat and Nanny escape their clutches with baby Esme. In The Hogfather, the tooth fairy's castle and Death's home are also larger on the inside. Death says "Perhaps you were expecting jelly and ice-cream." Back to The Witches's Reading Order. King Verence and Queen Magrat of Lancre have had their first child, a daughter, and have invited all the nearby rulers to her naming ceremony. The line 'yin, tan, TETRA!' Agnes says, "And I'd watch that bloke with the stake. Igor also gives himself an extra thumb because, if one is useful, two must be more so. Through the shredded black clouds a fire moved like a dying star, falling back to earth----the earth, that is, of the Discworld----but unlike any star had ever done before, it sometimes managed to steer its fall, sometimes rising, sometimes twisting, but inevitably heading down. The Omnians also proselytize door to door (Granny says, "You Omnians knock on doors" when they arrive at the Magpyr castle) and hand out pamphlets like the Jehovah Witnesses do. The name comes from the Latin meaning weeping and was usually used in reference to the Virgin Mary (Our Lady of Sorrows). by Bergholt Stuttley Johnson, Ankh-Morpork.' Near the end when he hears the advancing mob, he comments that he has good ears - a pun given that he has got them from someone else. Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel about vampires does a lot more than poke fun at the tropes and cliches of the genre. The language they speak is a mix of Glaswegian slang, Gaelic and pseudo - Scots such as is portrayed in Braveheart and Rob Roy. Adapted by Stephen Briggs into a stage play in 1999. The line by Igor, "Old Red Eyeth ith back!" The fact that they are riding on a donkey has parallels to Mary and Joseph heading to Bethlehem for Jesus' birth. Mnftrd. Published in 1998 the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in fiction, humor books. What listeners say about Carpe Jugulum. The Magpyrs are not keen on going home to Überwald and plan on making Lancre their new home with its obvious benefit of a whole new population to snack on - hence the scarves worn by the victims to cover their neck wounds. The line 'Do you remember Mr and Mrs Harker?' In Son of Dracula (1943), there is a Count 'Alucard', in Dracula's Last Rites (1979), a vampire called Dr A. Lucard, in Dracula: the Series (1990) he is Alexander Lucard, and in Dracula: the Dirty Old Man (1969) he is Alucard. G. K. Chesterton said: "Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. There is an obvious sexual component to this as well. A copperhead is a venomous viper native to eastern and southern USA. Jonathan and Mina Harker are two of the leading characters in Dracula. Mightily Oats' explanation of the various methods for killing vampires stem from the myriad ways of disposing of vampires in popular and traditional lore. They exert a hypnotic charm over normal people which prevents them from realizing that the vampires are taking over Lancre. It also bears similarities to Big Bird from Sesame Street. Carpe Jugulum; Chapter 8; Carpe Jugulum Chapter 8. Pratchett pokes fun at organized religion with his character Mightily Oats, more correctly called The Quite Reverend Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats. And most of their power comes from denying it.” ― Terry Pratchett, quote from Carpe Jugulum “The reward for toil had been more toil. Vlad and his ill-mannered sister Lacrimosa kidnap Agnes Nitt and takes her to Escrow, a town near Dontgonearthe Castle which the the Count considers to be a place of harmony between humans and the Vampires who follow the Count. They've killed Kenny!" The 23rd Discworld novel and the fifth or sixth in the Witches Theme, depending on whether Equal Rites is counted. It is also a reference to the French wine, Beaujolais which is marketed with the slogan 'Le Beaujolais nouveau est arrive.'. Corgi PB (British) p. 90: Agnes Nitt and Nanny Ogg are attempting to sabotage the vampires by handing out vol-au-vents contaminated with excessive amounts of garlic. Lacrimosa forms part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass and is a requiem in many pieces of classical music from Mozart's Requiem in D Minor to Verdi's Messa da Requiem. Agnes persuades Magrat and Nanny Ogg to find Granny Weatherwax, their only hope. 'Lift me to the Skies" could be 'Higher Ground (Lord Lift Me Up)' music by Johnson Oatman Jr., lyrics by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel, 'Om Shall Trample The Ungodly' is less clear, but the sentiment expressed is from Malachi 4.3 - 'And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet'. When Oats conducts his service, he scraps the standard boring songs and has the congregation sing the ones his grandmother taught him that are "full of fire and thunder and death and justice and tunes you could actually whistle, with titles like 'Om Shall Trample The Ungodly' and 'Lift Me To The Skies' and 'Light The Good Light'." The bathtardth!" Vampire's are a long time favourite in fiction, this week we're taking a look at how satirical author, Terry Pratchett reimagines the myths. As the vampires travel to the naming ceremony, Pratchett comments: "Do they really think that spelling their name backwards fools anyone?" Foopahs flourish. The image of Hodgesaargh wearing the bird arm puppet while trying to lure the phoenix chick may be modeled on Emu, the arm-length bird puppet used by Rod Hull in his 1970s British TV show. The Vampires have become terrified of their weakness but the Count remains as strong as ever, due to his complete faith in staying immune, and takes baby Esmerelda as a hostage. For some reason I’ve always loved Carpe Jugulum. "Carpe Jugulum" means "seize the throat". The Countess says, "If you prick us do we not bleed?" The sign post directing the victim to the castle, the extra creaky door, the vault, the stage coach losing a wheel in the ditch, the rickety bridge, the organ which has all the extra stops for special effects, etc have all been used in Gothic horror movies. Granny Weatherwax faces her … He smiled - he had a geometrically interesting smile, because of the row of stitches right across it - and said, 'Dear me, thomeone'th been lithening to too many thtorieth. Finally, Oats returns and with a new-found confidence gives the New Count a fatal axe wound, although Granny points out that the vampires may return again after many years, centuries or millennia. Escrow is a legal term for a formal contract or agreement between parties where the document is held by a third party until its conditions are met. Brutha; Simony; Ossory; Big Jim Beef; Magyrato Vlad says, "Le sang nouveau est arrive." Igor unfroze first. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Nanny Ogg talks about the "new changin' world order thing" and getting "money for hedges". Characters Main Characters. Only the youngest witch, Agnes, and the Omnian priest, Mightily Oats, seem able to resist this charm, due to their dual personalities. The phoenix is the mythical bird popularized in the Harry Potter series which rises from the ashes of its funeral pyre. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Carpe Jugulum; Chapter 20; Carpe Jugulum Chapter 20. 'Old Red Eyes is Back' is also the title of a 1992 song by English pop group, The Beautiful South. Later on Igor explains how he has done surgery on himself with all the parts he has inherited or been given by deceased friends and family members. This theme recurs throughout the book. These changes in the relationships and roles foreshadow Granny's death in the final Pratchett book. The modern Magpyrs believe the story of her bathing in the blood of two hundred virgins is highly exaggerated. If … Igor offers Nanny an orange as an alternate citrus fruit. His name also may be a reference to Titus Oates, a 17th century British clergyman and fraud. This comment reflects on the fact that many modern churches have sanitized their official hymnbooks, leaving many of their parishioners complaining vigorously about the insipidness of the new hymns. - And besides, she'll give us lots of whisky ('Uskabarch' is 'uisge beatha', 'water of life' --whisky). Granny Weatherwax reverses this on them at the end when they invite her into themselves by drinking her blood which allows her to control their minds. It's in the blood. Count de Magpyr, a vampire from Überwald, and his family travel to Lancre where they are invited by King Verence II to attend the naming of Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre, the newly born daughter of Queen Magrat Garlick. 'He broke out in them?' Possibly referring to the cult classic film 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981), in which the two main characters are told repeatedly: 'Stay off the moors, lads. In the town square, a change comes over the Vampires: Lacrimosa attacks Agnes in a strangely pathetic manner, several townspeople succeed in killing a vampire, and Vlad falls to temptation and bites Agnes although again, there is no permanent effect. Granny and he have a long conversation on the nature of belief while they are making their way to the Vampires' castle. Both are obvious references to Grimm's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel. We should be safe on the main road. It was first published in 1998. I reckon there's some psychology there --" - a man driving a stake into a female vampire is an obvious sexual reference. Ultimately Oats burns his Bible, the Book of Om, to start a fire to save Granny Weatherwax, symbolic of him leaving the constraints of the pedantic and theological world behind for a more pragmatic and worldly approach to belief. In the classic 1954 novel I am Legend, the last living human on an earth after everyone else has become a vampire experiments with this possibility. The stryx, its actions similar to a mosquito, has many parallels in mythology, including the Hamatsa Society of the Kwakwaka'wakw on Canada's west coast which involves large bird-like shape shifting "cannibals". Blood Bath: One of the Magpyr ancestors in is a parody of Elizabeth Bathory (although her name's Carmilla). 'Hakkis lugs awa' or 'Hack his lugs away' -- cut his ears off. Carpe Jugulum. Carpe jugulum est le vingt-quatrième livre des Annales du Disque-monde de l'écrivain anglais Terry Pratchett. 'I haven't got my hands on a Johnson for ages...' Since a Johnson is slang for a penis it tells us that Nanny is definitely moving into the role of the third witch - the crone - whether she likes it or not. It was first published in 1998. It is the last Witches book, before Tiffany Aching becomes the focus on the series. Agnes thinks that rather than this creating nightmares "It'll take the nightmares away." Achetez et téléchargez ebook Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23) (Discworld series) (English Edition): Boutique Kindle - Epic : Amazon.fr This line, immortalized by Legosi, with the dramatic pause before the word 'wine', appeared in many subsequent movie versions of Dracula, down to the Francis Ford Coppola 1992 remake Bram Stoker's Dracula. There're the witches – young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing... and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. which means "the new blood has arrived" a reference to the new breed of vampire that his family represents who aren't bothered by the traditional anti-vampire tactics. In fact, the townspeople are totally subjugated to vampires who call in to take blood freely. which is a variation of the Nietzsche quote from Beyond Good and Evil: "If you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.". The 23rd Discworld novel and the sixth in the Witches Theme. The line; "an' it's bein' used up on der Copperhead road tonight.' Any holy water?' Nanny Ogg travels to the vampires existing residence at Don'tgonearthe Castle in Überwald, where she meets Igor, the Count's servant. The scene when Magrat, Esme, Igor and Nanny arrive at the castle is a parody of many of the horror genre movies from Dracula to Frankenstein. The Feegles are Pictsies which is a pun on 'pixie' and 'Picts' (inhabitants of Scotland in Iron Age times). Even using lemons and watermelons were real world beliefs. She also claims that Esme has said her first word "burp" when she is 10 days. A swozzle or throat-whistle, produces the squeaky voice of Mr. Punch. https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Carpe_Jugulum?oldid=12861. The main characters of Carpe Jugulum novel are Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax. A description of tropes appearing in Carpe Jugulum. ― Terry Pratchett, quote from Carpe Jugulum “The Weatherwax women have always had one foot in shadow. - the sexual innuendo is obvious but takes Nanny by surprise. Buy Carpe Jugulum: (Discworld Novel 23) (Discworld Novels) by Pratchett, Terry from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. We do have: Awesome/Carpe Jugulum; Fridge/Carpe Jugulum; Funny/Carpe Jugulum; Headscratchers/Carpe Jugulum; Heartwarming/Carpe Jugulum; Literature/Carpe Jugulum; TearJerker/Carpe Jugulum; WMG/Carpe Jugulum; YMMV/Carpe Jugulum… He brings the characters and scenery alive! The Omnians have burned witches as did real world Puritans and the word Om has many of the associations that the word Pure has. Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be a priest. The line has come to represent trite and simplistic solutions to complex problems. No.'" They find Granny Weatherwax living in a cave in seclusion and are unable to convince her to help. Traditionally the three witches are the maiden, the mother and the old crone. two mothers and no maidens - a plan that Perdita seems to be keen on anyway)'. Coue's study of hypnotism convinced him that auto-suggestion could cure anything but results showed no improvement. By sharing her blood, the vampires have inadvertently allowed themselves to be controlled by Granny (via Borrowing) into not being able to do certain things such as flying or harming young Esme. This chant has been used by Glasgow Celtic against their rivals Rangers and also used on the death of Margaret Thatcher. The stories feature a tight cast of witches that operate in and around a sleep country town nestled in the Ramtop Mountains. Agnes flips herself onto her feet after standing upside down on her hands; reminiscent of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and also Laura Croft of the Tomb Raider video game series of which Pratchett was a fan. A freak acthident. 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