In the Chrestomanci universe there's a kind of magic called Performative Speech, where you cause something to happen as you say it.
And isn't that how the Cwidder in Cart and Cwidder work? You tell it a truth and then what you want and the want becomes true? I may have that a bit wrong.
I think it's one of DWJ's favorite forms of magic, which makes sense, since she's the writer changing the world.
I love the Witchweek example because she's not the one doing the magic, by explaining what happened, she convinces the others to help the magic be made. It's a wonderful scene.
I *know* I know more! I'm thinking there's something in Wood Wife by Terri Windling? (and why doesn't she write more novels?). There must be more in DWJ. Land of Laughs? It has been *so* long since I read that, but that's a characters from a book coming alive thing, possibly different.
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Date: 2012-04-21 01:06 am (UTC)And isn't that how the Cwidder in Cart and Cwidder work? You tell it a truth and then what you want and the want becomes true? I may have that a bit wrong.
I think it's one of DWJ's favorite forms of magic, which makes sense, since she's the writer changing the world.
I love the Witchweek example because she's not the one doing the magic, by explaining what happened, she convinces the others to help the magic be made. It's a wonderful scene.
I *know* I know more! I'm thinking there's something in Wood Wife by Terri Windling? (and why doesn't she write more novels?). There must be more in DWJ. Land of Laughs? It has been *so* long since I read that, but that's a characters from a book coming alive thing, possibly different.