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  "archive": "whorl",
  "thread": {
    "id": 1479,
    "subject": "Straga",
    "messages": 2,
    "voices": 2,
    "first": "2001-10-30T05:16:13+00:00",
    "last": "2001-10-30T08:31:53+00:00"
  },
  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0926@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Endy9",
        "address": "endymion91 at home.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-10-30T05:16:13+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Straga",
      "in_reply_to": null,
      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "I was watching \"World's Scariest Places\" last night.  The episode was \"Night\nin Count Dracula's Castle\".  In the setup interviews with locals they kept\nmentioning the word\n\nstrigoi\nIt was defined as spirit of the dead.  It could take the shape of an animal\nsuch as wolf (werewolf), bat (vampire) etc.  People who performed evil in\nlife often return this way.  Also, if dead are mistreated during life or\ntheir graves afterward, the strigoi returns so don't disrespect grave or\nmistreat the person in life, etc.\n\nI might have missed this discussion earlier.  Have you already discussed the\norigins of Straga as Wolfe used it?  Just threw a different light on the\ngrandmother calling Horn/Silk this.  When I read In Green's Jungles,  I took\nit only as a person of magical power like a village sorcerer or wizard.\n\nDennis/Endy\nhttp://members.home.net/endymion91/index.htm"
        },
        {
          "kind": "sig",
          "depth": 0,
          "text": "*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0927@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes",
        "address": "ddanehy at siebel.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-10-30T08:31:53+00:00",
      "subject": "RE: (whorl) Straga",
      "in_reply_to": "<whorl-v0012-0926@digest.urth.net>",
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          "text": "Denis/Endy,\n\n\"Strega\" is Italian for \"witch.\n\n--Dan'l\n\n\n*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun."
        }
      ]
    }
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