![]() He was diagnosis with early onset Alzheimer's disease in 2007. He wrote more than 70 books during his lifetime including The Dark Side of the Sun, Strata, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Truckers, Diggers, Wings, Dodger, Raising Steam, Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Tales, and The Shephard's Crown. ![]() His first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. His first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971. In 1980, he was appointed publicity officer for the Central Electricity Generating Board with responsibility for three nuclear power stations. He produced a series of cartoons for the monthly journal, Psychic Researcher, describing the goings-on at the government's fictional paranormal research establishment, Warlock Hall. ![]() He also worked for the Western Daily Press and the Bath Chronicle. While with the Press, he took the National Council for the Training of Journalists proficiency class. He left school at the age of 17 to work on his local paper, the Bucks Free Press. Terry Pratchett was on born Apin Beaconsfield, United Kingdom. Maskerade is the fifth book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order. 'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre' Observer Only now they're caught up in a murder mystery featuring masks and maniacal laughter. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg have travelled to Ankh-Morpork to convince Agnes that life as a witch is much better than one on the stage. ![]() And there are two witches who would much rather she return home to join their coven. The only problem is, she doesn't quite look the part. But now a set of mysterious backstage murders may just stop the show.Īgnes Nitt has left her rural home of Lancre in the hopes of launching a successful singing career in the big city. The Opera House in Ankh-Morpork is home to music, theatrics and a harmless masked Ghost who lurks behind the scenes. Masks conceal one face, but they reveal another. Similarly, the Postmaster's golden wingèd hat is a powerful thing and confers respect on all who see it, as well as a sense of power and responsibility on all who wear it.'There's a kind of magic in masks. Younger witches often feel much better for having their hats on, some even wearing it indoors. Generally, a witch is most powerful when the people around know (or at least think) that she is a powerful witch. And a witch's hat confers the authority of a witch. A bone-white mask confers the identity of a mysterious artist (see Maskerade). A warrior's helmet confers the identity of a warrior (see Lords and Ladies). For example, The Archchancellor's hat is the symbol of magic under the control of wizardry, and each wizards' hat signifies them as a wizard to non-mages. Many kinds of accessories confer a certain degree of identity. It can leave a family of vampires, who have just ill-advisedly dined on Granny's blood, incapacitated and craving nothing more than a very strong cup of tea with six sugars in it: Granny may have been vampired, but the vampires discover that they have also been well and truly Weatherwaxed. Headology can take advantage of a voodoo witch's belief that anything done to a doll is also done to the person that doll represents, and turn it back on the person holding the doll (so as to stick pins in it) in some surprising but logical ways. Granny Weatherwax is the foremost practitioner of headology on Discworld. ![]() A witch needs a very powerful, focused, and trained mind to use headology. Witches generally think that headology is a more powerful style of magic than any of the fancy stuff wizards use. This allows witches to make people think they are frogs, for example. If this view is changed effectively through the use of headology then this person's reality changes. Clearly, the way a person sees himself and the surrounding world forms the person's reality. The power of headology is not to be underestimated. For an exemplary combinatorial use of headology, herbal medicine, and physical therapy, see old Jarge Weaver's visit to Granny Weatherwax in Maskerade. This is used by witches to earn respect or at least fear, and also to cure patients. The practice of headology relies on the principle that what people believe is what is real. Like psychology, but many witches think "psychology" is a bad word, or that it means "having a psychological problem". ![]()
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