> At 12:27 PM 7/12/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> >> > That's really nice! However, surely even Eurmal occasionally
gets the
> >> > pretty girl?
>
> I, for one, DO think that eurmal can get the girl, and maybe even
often.
> But I also believe that anyone who uses Eurmal magic to get the girl
always
> also gets more than bargained for. The prize catch, typically
desired for
> some id-driven trickster reason, turns out to be shrewish, a bad
cook,
> laden with curses, loaded with bad kinfolk and so on.
> "Oh, no wonder they call me Trickster," he moans.
Or an ogre...
I have to go back to reading 'Coyote Tales' -- I have a trickster
torment.
Jeff