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Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
(February 15, 2017 at 8:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Rhonda, I don't know if it'll help with your writing or not, but a geas can also take the from of an obligation that can create a conflict for your character.  By way of example, the Irish myth figure Cuchulain laboured under multiple geasa.  He was forbidden to eat the flesh of a dog, but was also obligated to never refuse a feast.  When the baddies invited him to a feast at which boiled dog was served, it caused him no end of trouble.

Boru
I imagine it did. And to add insult to injury, they were playing Another One Bites the Dust on the bagpipes.
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#22
RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
(February 15, 2017 at 8:55 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I like that story. Is it from Nigeria, the Ife tradition.   I mistyped up above. It should say Orisa. Esu, Oya and Shango are prominent in this novel. But it's not an ex dous machine.

It's likely to be either Ife or Ashanti.  I can't recall which.  I can't even remember the names, so I can't find it on google, lol.
(there are a ton of stories about the man and his wife, too, I'll keep thinking about it, try and find it for you.)
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#23
RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
(February 15, 2017 at 9:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(February 15, 2017 at 8:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Rhonda, I don't know if it'll help with your writing or not, but a geas can also take the from of an obligation that can create a conflict for your character.  By way of example, the Irish myth figure Cuchulain laboured under multiple geasa.  He was forbidden to eat the flesh of a dog, but was also obligated to never refuse a feast.  When the baddies invited him to a feast at which boiled dog was served, it caused him no end of trouble.

Boru
I imagine it did. And to add insult to injury, they were playing Another One Bites the Dust on the bagpipes.

Now that's a vivid image.
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#24
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(February 15, 2017 at 11:25 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:
(February 15, 2017 at 9:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: I imagine it did. And to add insult to injury, they were playing Another One Bites the Dust on the bagpipes.

Now that's a vivid image.

My tagline as a writer is "The writer who paints pictures with words."
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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#25
RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
Geas?

It's spelt B-O-O-B-I-E-S and it's pronounced DEE-LISH-US.

Sorry I couldn't give a more serious answer but the answer had already been given, lol.
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#26
RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
(February 16, 2017 at 4:41 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Geas?

It's spelt B-O-O-B-I-E-S and it's pronounced DEE-LISH-US.

Sorry I couldn't give a more serious answer but the answer had already been given, lol.

I think that's about as close to serious as you're likely to get.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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#27
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Deleted...Wrong thread.
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#28
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Faux Latin, ala J. K. Rowling, is handy for made-up words. I grew suspicious of one collection of ... odd ... words in a book and on investigation I found they were actually parts of the human body.
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#29
RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
(February 15, 2017 at 2:36 pm)Jesster Wrote: I think the word you are looking for is "geas"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Geas

And it's definitely not a species of flying bird.

The géas is from Irish mythology, an obligation placed on a person from birth by fate which, if broken, leads to a bad fate for the person.

(February 15, 2017 at 9:05 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:
(February 15, 2017 at 8:55 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Rhonda, I don't know if it'll help with your writing or not, but a geas can also take the from of an obligation that can create a conflict for your character.  By way of example, the Irish myth figure Cuchulain laboured under multiple geasa.  He was forbidden to eat the flesh of a dog, but was also obligated to never refuse a feast.  When the baddies invited him to a feast at which boiled dog was served, it caused him no end of trouble.

Boru
I imagine it did. And to add insult to injury, they were playing Another One Bites the Dust on the bagpipes.

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RE: Can Someone Help Me Find this Word?
(February 19, 2017 at 2:21 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Faux Latin, ala J. K. Rowling, is handy for made-up words. I grew suspicious of one collection of ... odd ... words in a book and on investigation I found they were actually parts of the human body.
Someone was trying to be anatomically creative.Wink
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.

I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire

Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
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