Some Liz Thoughts on Discworld

 Hogfather, The Tooth Fairy and Sympathetic Magic (Golden Bough) Is There a Witch Bottle in Your House? - JSTOR Daily Use of body parts etc for magic https://daily.jstor.org/is-there-a-witch-bottle-in-your-house/ https://www.quora.com/Why-do-witches-use-hair-blood-and-pictures-to-place-spells-on-people  The exposé of the hypocrisy of capitalist Christmas whilst at the same time believing in Christmas spirit ie Hallmark and Disney is classic English, obviously very Dickens Victoriana. Guilting using sentimental stories like the Little Match girl was still current in my Childhood. In fact there's still this thing about competing major stores Christmas adverts on the telly apparently. Not that I'm really much in touch with that.  I thought TP 's whole debate about poverty and hypocrisy was pretty well put, seeming to go along with the materialism the skewering it in the third section.  I enjoyed the search for the origin of the tooth fairy. I followed it up and agree i...

  Hogfather bathroom scene Another thought from the podcast, the bathroom. I'd wondered about that. I went back to the text a few weeks ago and pondered it through. In conclusion I think TP intended (whether it worked or not is, as usual, another matter of course) it as contributing to 1.Imagery.  Theme of doors, locked ones in particular. Dr Downey has 2 visits in succession without use of the best protected door ever (auditors and Téatimé), and the gold goes into a locked vault. Téatimé appears to enter the "bar" without coming through the door, and he is obsessed about opening the tower door even though he has accomplished his commission of dealing with the HF. Susan inadvertently goes through locked doors at the UU and the YMPA. Death looks out through a locked door at the shack to ask Albert how to open it. The children come through the nursery door, Susan deals with the bogey in the cellar behind a shut door. Inconsequential unless coming and going through doorways ...