# DOORS: malicapata

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jan 2003*

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### James Jordan
*21 Jan 2003, 03:50*

> I'm not sure how to parse the word.  "Mali-" can be "evil" or "apple";
> "-capata," I don't know . . . looks like past tense?  "He took the apple"?
> "Evil got him"?
> 
> =mantis=

Capata might be a Wolfean spin on _caput_ rather than on _capio_, maybe 
something like "evil/sickness in the head"? I'm not rereading the book, and 
don't recall where it occurs and in what context.

Nutria

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