Re: (TFT) elvish licentiousness

["Brett Slocum" <slocum@skypoint.com>]

From: "Quite Confused" <Confused3141@hotmail.com>
> It seems to me that the farie don't try to harm man intentionally, rather
> that their lifestyles (?) are incompatable. Like what happens to a mortal
> if they enter a farie ring. The faire are just partying but the mortal
> can't keep up. Maybe they were saying that only the farie can handel their
> drugs.

Much of the problem is that time doesn't flow the same way in Faerie as it 
does in this world.

> Another intresting thing that she mentioned in that story was that to ward
> off farie one could put iron in one pocket and salt in the other. Now iron
> makes perfect since via magic in TFT, but salt? And I'd heard this before
> in other cultures like part of killing a vampire in the caribiean is to
> sew its mouth closed packed with sea salt. And salt was very important in
> Roman culture. "Worth his salt" is an old Roman saying and this importance
> translated through feudal culture. A person who was "below the salt" was
> not important. Oddness.

Part of the salt thing for the Romans, and the source of "worth his salt", was 
the Roman legionaires were paid in salt, because it was valuable. The other 
thing about salt magically, is that it grounds out magical energy, much like 
cold iron.

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