The story begins with the christening ceremony of King Verence and Queen Magrat's baby girl, Princess Margaret Note Spelling. The modern Magpyrs believe the story of her bathing in the blood of two hundred virgins is highly exaggerated. Nanny tells Agnes (the maiden) to make the tea but Magrat (the mother) to pour. Igor also gives himself an extra thumb because, if one is useful, two must be more so. It was first published in 1998. They've killed Kenny!" The phoenix is the mythical bird popularized in the Harry Potter series which rises from the ashes of its funeral pyre. 'Gallons.' They cannot cross running water but somehow can get across it in a coach, The line 'Do onions hurt us? No.'" Stick to the road'. is a reference to the inconsistency that somehow garlic is fatal but shallots and onions are not even though they both belong to the allium family. Magpies, like crows are thought to be an evil omen in western cultures and a symbol of magic, witchcraft and prophesy. They munch on garlic, aren't bothered by bright light, cross moving water and are impervious to religious symbols. Not exclusively does King Verence welcome a group of vampires to his little girl’s initiating, his welcome to the effective witch, Granny Weatherwax goes strangely off track. Later on in Carpe Jugulum during the final battle Nanny and Igor run out of lemons with which to attack the vampires. A description of tropes appearing in Carpe Jugulum. A family of modernist vampires from Uberwald attend the ceremony and quickly and painlessly take over the castle, in part by using mind control on all in attendance. Another version of the Rouindworld counting system's origin says that it came with itinerant shepherds from Romania in the19th Century, who were brought in to Yorkshire to be shepherds there. It turns out to mean something like "Go for the Throat" (that's Nanny Ogg's translation, not mine), which could be quite a hint towards the topic of this book, namely Vampires. Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett It wasn’t that they didn’t take an interest in the world around them. There are the witches: young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything, Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble. The fact that they are riding on a donkey has parallels to Mary and Joseph heading to Bethlehem for Jesus' birth. Agnes persuades Magrat and Nanny Ogg to find Granny Weatherwax, their only hope. Soon, they confront the vampires but look to be defeated and the Count only laughs at both their mob and Oats' own attempt at defiance. Ultimately Oats burns his Bible, the Book of Om, to start a fire to save Granny Weatherwax, symbolic of him leaving the constraints of the pedantic and theological world behind for a more pragmatic and worldly approach to belief. And the vampires are intelligent, with fancy waistcoats and lots of style. Escrow is a legal term for a formal contract or agreement between parties where the document is held by a third party until its conditions are met. Brutha; Simony; Ossory; Big Jim Beef; Magyrato Vlad and his ill-mannered sister Lacrimosa kidnap Agnes Nitt and takes her to Escrow, a town near Dontgonearthe Castle which the the Count considers to be a place of harmony between humans and the Vampires who follow the Count. The 23rd Discworld novel and the fifth or sixth in the Witches Theme, depending on whether Equal Rites is counted. You’ll understand the episode title when you get to about the 1 hour 45 minute mark. 'Light The Good Light' is probably the Omnian version of 'Fight the Good Fight' (lyrics by John Samuel Bewley Monsell, music by William Boyd. Terry Pratchett – Carpe Jugulum Audiobook Free Online. The line 'Do you remember Mr and Mrs Harker?' - the sexual innuendo is obvious but takes Nanny by surprise. For some reason I’ve always loved Carpe Jugulum. She escapes and, aided by Mightily Oats, heads to the seat of the Magpyr family's power in Uberwald. Check out Carpe Jugulum's Characters and Stats from Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes! He brings the characters and scenery alive! By sharing her blood, the vampires have inadvertently allowed themselves to be controlled by Granny (via Borrowing) into not being able to do certain things such as flying or harming young Esme. Jump to: navigation, search. 'It's a Johnson,' she (Nanny Ogg) breathed. Carpe Jugulum Annotations - The Annotated Pratchett File, Esmerelda Margaret Note Spelling of Lancre, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump, http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Book:Carpe_Jugulum&oldid=31021, Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 296 pages and is available in Hardcover format. The Old Count is left in charge of Escrow by popular demand, and is charged by Granny to teach the two young Magpyrs the "old ways' (ie - stupidity). This is also a shot at the sanitization of children's fairy tales for political correctness, something JK Rowling also pokes fun at in her send up of Enid Blyton in Tales of Beedle the Bard. Agnes thinks that rather than this creating nightmares "It'll take the nightmares away." It's in the blood. Magrat packs every conceivable stimulating device for baby Esme to take with them when she and Esme flee the castle with Agnes and Mightily Oaks. The Countess says, "If you prick us do we not bleed?" Carpe Jugulum is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty third in the Discworld series. A swozzle or throat-whistle, produces the squeaky voice of Mr. Punch. This chant has been used by Glasgow Celtic against their rivals Rangers and also used on the death of Margaret Thatcher. There’s a mixed blessing in reading a series of books with recurring characters and that’s one of attachment. When Nanny and Agnes are investigating Granny's disappearance Agnes says "Good morning, Mister Magpie," - being polite to the bird is a way of avoiding its bad luck. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Overall. They find Granny Weatherwax living in a cave in seclusion and are unable to convince her to help. Dontgonearthe Castle becomes the scene of a final confrontation between the Vampires and united citizens of Escrow and Lancre. The Magpyrs and their vampire cohorts are foiled and retreat to their castle for their final stand while Nanny Ogg's son Shawn organizes the attack on the remaining vampires in Lancre. No.' https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Carpe_Jugulum?oldid=12861. When Magrat says that Igor seems to be carrying a torch for her (in this case both a figurative and literal one). His name also may be a reference to Titus Oates, a 17th century British clergyman and fraud. A young warrior wanted to watch the buffalo plunge off the cliff from below. The two witches compare counting rhymes involving magpies, Nanny's version similar to the Scots version given in Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable: Igor, the Magpyr family servant is a parody of the typical servant found in horror movies like Frankenstein. Vlad de Magpyr quite happily eats one, then announces "Any more of those garlic things? In Carpe Jugulum, it is left ambiguous until the end of the novel what Nanny's intentions are toward Esme and whether she has put her under a spell by taking over her body. He longs for the days of the old Count and the old vampire ways when there was always a billowing curtain, a room with an open window, caskets, creaking doors and all the other castle trappings made popular in vampire lore. Agnes is taken to the town of Escrow by Vlad and his family to witness this monthly ceremony (very reminscent of the short story the Lottery by Shirley Jackson.) Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel about vampires does a lot more than poke fun at the tropes and cliches of the genre. Any holy water?' Got any garlic?' After the vampires are defeated at Escrow there is concern from Perdita about taking the children to kill the vampires at the castle. The main characters of this fiction, humor story are Nanny Ogg, Granny Weatherwax. However, young witch Agnes Nitt and the priest, an Omnian traveller called Mightily Oats are able to resist their power due to their split personalities. The traditional thinking of the Old Count quickly proves far more popular with the people from Escrow than modern vampirism. 'Hakkis lugs awa' or 'Hack his lugs away' -- cut his ears off. 'But until it does, you see, you'll not harm a child, you'll not harm Magrat, you hate the thought of drinking blood, and you won't run because you'll never run from a challenge...' 'What will wear off?' He was briefly engaged to Tiffany Aching who was temporarily the kelda of the clan. King Verence and Queen Magrat of Lancre have had their first child, a daughter, and have invited all the nearby rulers to her naming ceremony. Pratchett's methods, while seemingly ridiculous in the extreme are not much of an exaggeration from those in the "real world". This reference pokes fun at the many vampire movies where this ruse succeeds. The Omnians also proselytize door to door (Granny says, "You Omnians knock on doors" when they arrive at the Magpyr castle) and hand out pamphlets like the Jehovah Witnesses do. Death says "Perhaps you were expecting jelly and ice-cream." This comment reflects on the fact that many modern churches have sanitized their official hymnbooks, leaving many of their parishioners complaining vigorously about the insipidness of the new hymns. Corgi PB (British) p. 90: Agnes Nitt and Nanny Ogg are attempting to sabotage the vampires by handing out vol-au-vents contaminated with excessive amounts of garlic. Characters / Carpe Jugulum Go To. The Feegles are Pictsies which is a pun on 'pixie' and 'Picts' (inhabitants of Scotland in Iron Age times). In Carpe Jugulum, Igor's uncle works for a mad scientist and is good a brain juggling. 'I haven't got my hands on a Johnson for ages...' Since a Johnson is slang for a penis it tells us that Nanny is definitely moving into the role of the third witch - the crone - whether she likes it or not. Carpe Jugulum; Chapter 8; Carpe Jugulum Chapter 8. Granny appears destined to become a vampire, but afterwards she recovers in the care of Oats. Amusing to me anyway. is a takeoff on the reoccurring gag in the adult cartoon South Park In every episode, Kenny is killed in some implausible way after which Kyle and Stan exchange the comment, "Oh my god! Nanny Ogg travels to the vampires existing residence at Don'tgonearthe Castle in Überwald, where she meets Igor, the Count's servant. A freak acthident. This is a play on the modern economic jargon of new world order and hedge funds, lines that are repeated throughout the book. The line "Up the airy mountain and down the rushy glen ran the Nac mac Feegle," is a play on the poem The Fairies, by William Allingham: Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men; The battle cry of "We're gonna cut yer tonk-- yer tongue off,"' is also used in Interesting Times where psychological warfare means drumming on your shield and shouting "We're gonna cut yer tonkers off." He's altogether too keen on it. 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