sovay: (I Claudius)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote in [personal profile] steepholm 2015-10-06 06:42 am (UTC)

Harding's Luck has a pawnshop owner who's meant to be basically quite nice, but, well, you can fill in the rest.

I don't think I've read Harding's Luck. I shall do so carefully if I decide to.

I can hardly find anything online except Nesbit herself and the Star Trek episode.

Well, this is definitely not the book I remember reading, but the detail about Cincinnati is fascinating! That was according to William Wells Newell in 1883. I am a little skeptical about all the mythological origins and connections, but the collection of variant names and rules is probably reliable.

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