On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 12:48:24PM -0800, David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> wrote: > On 7 Jan 2003, Jag wrote: > >I've also heard of the being born with a caul meaning special things > >in other books. For some reason I want to think its Card's Alvin > >Maker series. > Card was obviously using lots of old folklore and magical traditions > when he wrote those books. FWIW, the "defend the fields in dreams" and "being born with a caul" appears in Tigana, as a subplot worth a couple chapters. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp