He orders his henchmen to rip off her wings and throw her out of the Elf Kingdom.Mr. After Tiffany sees how Geoffrey has mobilized the old men and given them a purpose by building sheds, she gets the Feegles to build the Elf King his own shed on the edge of his domain in the hope that it will earn his allegiance (what man can resist a shed of his own).Only the Nac mac Feegle children would learn their alphabet with "A is for Axe to chop off your head" instead of "A is for Apple". "Ach, stickit yer trakkans" in mock Scottish means "Oh stick it you derogatory term for an elf) Trakkans appears to be taken from the game World of Warcraft.The novel also plays with the common folk tale number three; Mephistopheles is the third baby goat and the runt of the litter. In England a backhouse is a small building at the rear of a house used as a wash house or storage shed. However the short phrase is also a generic Scottish battle-cry, probably eliding to "Scots Wha-hey" - more-or-less "Scots, get on with it".The Nac mac Feegles go out to face the Elfish threat (the Queen with their battle cries;Scunner' is a Scots word for something or someone to which/whom you've taken a strong dislike. A crown for someone who knew where she had come from. . As I inquisitively gazed around the room my eyes stopped at a strange object - an oval shaped stone, golden in colour, with stripes running from top to bottom. Again Pratchett is pushing the limits on the sanitized children's world of books and learning vs a more realistic (certainly for the the Feegles) one. The Shepherd's Crown. The longest flume was over 100 kms (62 miles) long and went from the Sierra Nevada Mountains across canyons and gorges to the lumber yard in Sanger, California.Hiddlins is a Scottish word for 'secrets' (from 'hide') so in this sense Rob is worried that Jeannie hasn't taught Maggie the secrets of being a woman.Upon seeing the white cat, he King of the Elves says, "You!" Cancel anytime. "What's that?" There is absolutely no scientific evidence to support any of this.The King of the Elves aspect resonates with Pan; cloven hooves, horns, strong smell (like a male goat).Geoffrey, the third son of Lord Swivel, is well educated, a vegetarian and a pacifist. He doesn't need a third son who spends his time immersed in books instead of blood sports and takes no interest in Geoffrey, especially when Geoffrey displays his contempt for his father's hunting practices which he considers barbaric. In Lancre, they are met by the assembled witches with help from Geoffrey, his goat and the old men and they are defeated. Flumes were initially built as a box but that was modified to a 'V' shape because the logs didn't jam as easily (the Discworld log herders are positioned to stop jams) but rather floated free when the water backed up. [[# helpers.no_result_for ]] "[[ query ]]" [[/ helpers.no_result_for]]If you are located outside the U.S., the best way to order online is to choose from the following bookstores listed by region and country. I asked, "It's a Shepherd's Crown" my father replied. She stated that she would not be continuing the series, nor would she permit anybody else to continue her father's legacy, calling it "sacred" to him.Tiffany notices young Feegles are following her on her rounds and collecting samples of the strongest substance known to man, toenail clippings from the elderly. The etymology of the word originally had to do with homosexual relations but in North America it is long forgotten. The original stanza is "Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome tae your gory bed, Or tae Victorie!" The broadest selection of online bookstores. Sir Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel, which features the witch Tiffany Aching. OTHER BOOKSELLERS. It is the fifth novel in the Discworld series to be based on the character of Tiffany Aching, and was published in the UK on 27 August 2015 by Random House publishers, and in the United States on 1 September 2015. Pratchett's version includes, "Down in the Valley" a reference to the old American folk song of the same name.The fact that Tiffany's 'young man' is a doctor while she is a witch is very symbolic in Roundworld as the development of the profession of doctors (male) was what essentially drove witches (female) underground and changed their image from the wise old woman who looked after the village folk to that of an evil sorceress.Nightshade is found by the Feegle who has been stationed on the Chalk to guard the gateway to fairyland.