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Jan 29, 2022 18:25:11 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jan 29, 2022 18:25:11 GMT -5
Reading the new Defenders book and I just have to ask why does every single sorcerer or sorceress have to rhyme in order to cast a spell? Wish I had brought this up in the cliche/ comic tropes threads.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 29, 2022 18:45:03 GMT -5
Reading the new Defenders book and I just have to ask why does every single sorcerer or sorceress have to rhyme in order to cast a spell? Wish I had brought this up in the cliche/ comic tropes threads. I don't know, but it's a tradition going back at least to Macbeth's three witches! Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the caldron boil and bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble!
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Jan 29, 2022 18:46:04 GMT -5
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Post by james on Jan 29, 2022 18:46:04 GMT -5
Good point.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 29, 2022 19:01:24 GMT -5
Perhaps it's mnemonic (and sometimes cthonic)
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Post by tarkintino on Jan 29, 2022 20:28:22 GMT -5
Reading the new Defenders book and I just have to ask why does every single sorcerer or sorceress have to rhyme in order to cast a spell? The various writers watched too many episodes of Bewitched.
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Jan 29, 2022 23:54:48 GMT -5
Post by tartanphantom on Jan 29, 2022 23:54:48 GMT -5
Mainly because they know it annoys the crap out of us mere mortals.
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