Hex Double Quotes

Whenever other Lore creatures like the nymphs and satyrs turned their noses up at the “hex-hacks,” Carrow would raise both her hands in the rock-on horns gesture and shout, “Double, double, toil and trouble, muthafuckas! You just got cursed!” Then she actually would curse them.

Out of the steam and the foam and the froth, a man in white with poor eyesight will craft a liquid paradox, and it shall be called the Triple Nonfat Double Bacon Five-Cheese Mocha!”>

Let me get this straight. One four-hex to thirty billion, in one year.” “I’ll do it in six months.” Richard said. “You wish to wager?” Roland grinned. “Usual terms?” “Usual. Double the term, or swap now.” Roland tapped the ebony table. “One condition.” “Name it,” Richard snapped. “I get to pick the bum.” It was raining, which was not exactly uncommon for the southern part of Texatron City, and it was nighttime, which occurred roughly once every day. Neon-clad shops lined one half of the main boulevard, while the ramshackle favela perched on the other. Above those precarious dwellings, jutting out of the hillside like challenging chins, luxurious villas that housed the favela’s bosses boasted panoramic glass infinity pools and helipads. Upon the very peak of the great hill, above even those villas, a single, sprawling building sat, lost to the smog-laden rain. Terisco dwelled there, and Terisco was death, plain and simple. Fortunately, there was very little reason for Jayden to ever cross paths with Terisco or any of his lieutenants. He kept his head down. He did his job. He paid his dues. Jayden had a very good chance of living a hard, skinny, but quiet life. That was unless fate meddled, or luck gave him a sharp kick in the

Individuals whose alter egos journey in this way—which a pastor of the ancient duchy of Oldenburg considers an unfortunate destiny,29 recalling the words of Burchard de Worms concerning werewolves—have various names in the German dialects: schrottel,30 in which the notion of malice survives; schreckli, which transcribes as “provoked fear”; and a collection of other terms that closely associate nightmare and witchcraft, such as Trude (Drude), Drudenmensch, and Alp, all current names for nightmare; Walriderske, “She who rides the stick”; Hexe, “witch”; and Marriden, “the riding ma(h)r,” a synonym of witch. By way of comparison, we can note that Hungarian uses lidércnyomas, a word composed from lidérc, “nightmare”; and nyomas, a term of unknown etymology—and that pressing or squeezing is almost always the principle function of witches.31 The lidérc partially corresponds to the Romanian zburăor, “who is born out of fear or terror, out of vexation or wrath, of bad humors, worry, boredom, and great joy,”32 which says a great deal about the role of the psyche in these phenomena and beliefs. In Lithuania we meet the slogutis (plural slogucĭai), “She who oppresses dreamers.”33