The Loganstone

David Stockhoff · 12 Aug 2013, 13:11 · from 2013-August.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:11:34 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Loganstone
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Interesting. Well, witches and giants certainly come with the territory.

On 8/12/2013 9:01 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
>> David Stockhoff: In IGJ, chapter 14, Duko Rigoglio mentions the Loganstone,
>> assumed to be the lander that carried him and others to the Whorl.
> Thanks for calling this to our attention, David. I poked around a little and
> found this about Loganstones, which I found to be relevant and of interest:
>
>> Their weirdness has long given them supernatural associations and made them a
>> focus for witchcraft. It was thought, for example, that the rocking stone near
>> Nancledrea in Cornwall could only be moved at midnight when witches were abroad;
>> people believed that if you touched it nine times at midnight, you turned into a
>> witch. The one at Land?s End was said to have been put there by a giant who rocked
>> himself to sleep on it. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-log1.htm
> Perhaps there is a loose association with the "Mother" of the witches on Urth, the
> Cumaean, who is in contact with a being in the Fomalhaut (Fish's Mouth) star system.
> On Blue we have the giant, fishy Mother who swallows sailors and is associated with
> Abaia, Great Scylla and Echidna, who connects back to The Cumaean (Sybil).
>
> Perhaps Wolfe didn't have the giants and witches in mind when he named the Loganstone,
> but it seems like the possibility of a general connection exists. 		 	   		
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