Re: Re: Animism: multiple traditions?

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 08:51:47 -0700


> > That you really need to be a shaman to beat up spirits. (I'm
> sorry, I was
> > remembering the good old days of HQ, when we didn't have practices
> or
> > traditions, and anyone could interact with spiits)
> >
>
> ..old days of HW... surely?

yeah yeah yeah. I'm getting old, kid, leave me alone. [grumble kids nowadays hmmph grumble, NURSE!]

> Another old HW rule that I don't think survived the transition was
> that a shaman who brought a spirit down to complete defeat could
> then treat the defeated spirit as part of their own 'personal'
> tradition (from memory, the exact wording may differ). I suspect
> the intent is to allow the "scary old shaman" to have spirits that

Precisely. Except we didn't have traditions yet.

> you weren't expecting, which appear to come from outside of his
> normal sphere of influence. It may be an ability that is perculiar
> to a particular or small subset of practices?

It may be one the the small-S secrets of shamanhood, attainable by Heroquest.

RR
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