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[stillsostrange]

Feeling less stressed today. I sorted out a huge point of character motivation/action, and filled in an important [conversation]. And the first half of the book is still fun to read.

Today's random WiP questions:

Who is the saint of hunters?

What is the formal name of Erisín's east gate?

What costume is this assassin wearing when he infiltrates the royal ball?

What are some of Selafai's superstitious cures for the flu?

Comments

[clarentine]

What are some of Selafai's superstitious cures for the flu?

Given that flu is so contagious and likely deadly in a world without antibiotics, I'd guess the cures would be likewise deadly - ducking, maybe? Some sort of hogan-like structure where noxious substances would be burnt, driving out the evil? Maybe the cure will depend on what the culture believes the flu is. If it's magic, some magic-related act or substance. If it's evil, something to drive out the demons.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

Antibiotics Do Not Work On The Flu. /annoying PSA

[clarentine]

Why, so they don't. But people still use them like magic, eh?

[clarentine]

And, anyway, it's not the flu that kills you, it's the pneumonia and that ilk, if I understand correctly.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

But pneumonia can be killed by antibiotics. (I had a course of whatever it is you stockpile against anthrax, right at the peak of th anthrax assassinations. O the fun time.)

[artemishi.livejournal.com]

I was once fed a concoction of honey, cayenne, and raw garlic by an herbalist "friend" to treat the flu. That WAS evil. And ineffective.

And the Catholic patron saint of hunters is St Hubert, if that helps at all. :)