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The first two were withdrawn following the publisher realising what they were really about; the third survived with heavy editing. In Pratchett's short story " The Sea and Little Fishes" Nanny Ogg also identifies herself, and the Ogg family as a whole, as having immense natural magical talent, but less willing to work hard as do the Weatherwaxes. In Thief of Time, Nanny Ogg is acknowledged as the best midwife in the world, and has experience with non-human species like trolls. A close runner up for the most popular Nanny Ogg song is "A Wizard's Staff has a Knob on the End", a version of which has been written by Heather Wood, with music by Dave Greenslade [2].
She's had 5 husbands and been married to three of them and has fifteen children who survived their early childhood (one was born some ten years after the death of her last husband). But in addition to the delights of the 'Strawberry Wobbler' and 'Nobby's Mum's Distressed Pudding', Mrs Ogg imparts her thoughts on social etiquette , life, death, courtship, children and weddings, all in a refined style that should not offend the most delicate of sensibilities. Nanny lives her life exactly as she wishes, and her daughters-in-law are those who make that possible. An’ once again I have to point out that it is a matter of fine details, such as, if there’s a gate needs holdin’ open and it looks like half a dollar might be forthcoming, it’s ‘G’day, your graciousness,’ whereas if you’ve just set fire to his ancestral piles and the mob is breakin’ the windows it is more suitable to address him as ‘you bloated lying blutocat! Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983.
Content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike unless otherwise noted. Nanny had an unexpected gift for languages; she could be comprehensibly incompetent in a new one within an hour or two. Nanny Ogg claims, in Lords and Ladies, that her ancestors invented the ancient language of Oggham, the Discworld equivalent of the ancient Irish alphabet Ogham.
in Irish Gaelic mythology, Tír na nÓg is the Island of the Blessèd (the literal translation of the Gaelic 'Tír na nÓg' is 'Land of the Young'), the Celtic heaven set in the far West, beneath the setting sun. I love the recipes and the whole book is a great fun read, i think that every kitchen should have a copy. Paul started working with Terry in 1993 and has designed the Discworld book jackets since 2002 following the death of artist Josh Kirby.
Her singing voice, when echoed by a half filled bathtub, causes birds to fall from the sky and goat milk to turn into yoghurt while still in the goat. And the child had a permanently runny nose and ought to be provided with a handkerchief or, failing that, a cork.
We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Nanny Ogg gave this the same consideration as would a nuclear physicist who'd just been told that someone was banging two bits of sub-critical uranium together to keep warm. In any case, the result is that it is difficult to knock Nanny out by hitting her on the head, an option not often contemplated but attempted at least once (see Maskerade) - even having a house drop on her head has not knocked her out (see Witches Abroad ). She named him ‘The Mince of Darkness’ because of his small and twinkling hooves, and added, ‘Not that I don’t like him, stinky as he is.As skilled a witch as Granny, but in other ways, able to manipulate events and people (even Granny) by being herself – in capital letters – fond of a dram, or three; fond of a lad, or three; she is Granny's connection to a different world. It was the magic of illusions and misdirection and foolery, and that was fine by Nanny Ogg, because you couldn’t be married three times without a little fooling.
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