From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) More Sidhe
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 08:52:29 

On Thu, 10 May 2001, Roy C. Lackey wrote:

> of Youth); the old gods were gone and the land and people were much
> diminished from their former glory. They retreated to an isle, where
> eventually they came in contact with a holy man (Christian, of course).
> Versions differ, but whether before or after baptism, they loose their swan
> shapes and find themselves shrunken, ancient, and decrepit, near death. They
> are converted and soon die and are buried together in one grave.

That's funny.  I assumed that the Christian holy man and baptism were the
parts Wolfe had added.   Neat to see that the nifty part (the flock
dwindling to a single bird) is from Wolfe (of course, I guess he might
have picked that up somewhere else as well).

Interesting that Wolfe leaves out what happens to the Sidhe after they
revert to their original forms.

-Rostrum



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