Re: Cornish Ogres

From: Andrew Larsen <aelarsen_at_mac.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 09:24:59 -0600

> From: SIMONBRAYUK_at_aol.com
> Subject: Re: Glorantha Digest, Vol 11, Issue 87
> To: glorantha_at_rpglist.org
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> In a message dated 31/03/2005 08:55:04 GMT Standard Time,
> glorantha-request_at_rpglist.org writes:
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> My old RuneQuest books described these brutes as
> resembling "Cornish ogres." I always took that
> statement at face value, but when I starting looking
> for some actual Cornish stories about ogres, I came up
> with absolutely . . . nothing.
>
>
>
> We are slipping into Oscar Wilde territory here, the Cornish Ogre is the
> friend of the Selfish Giant (from the story of that name) the two
>of them used
> to live together for seven years, but split after a rift. If you know what I
> mean.
>
> Simon

     LOL! So that's what they mean by man-eating ogres. And here I thought they meant cannibals.

Andrew E. Larsen

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