Yes, the medicine peddler did know what Wednesday was. Kami would be the nearest analogue. Certainly not mononoke; though Shadow might have thought Wednesday something nearer a yōkai than was strictly applicable, after everything that went down back at the Masonic Hall. Wednesday would have thought yōkai more like unto the draugar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draugr) who'd plagued the farmsteads of his people in the old country -- yes, or even the corpse of Thorstein Eiriksson (http://books.google.com/books?id=m-4rb_GhQ5EC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=thorstein+eiriksson&source=web&ots=-YVvPN7og7&sig=yoYLyCe1GyD5zXq632M945BkRWo&hl=en), and that in the New World, in Wednesday's own uncharitable America.
"That's a question with several possible answers." He took a seat beside the medicine peddler. "The most mundane answer is that runes are an alphabet, a system of writing used by the ancient Germanic tribes."
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Date: 2008-04-09 11:12 pm (UTC)"That's a question with several possible answers." He took a seat beside the medicine peddler. "The most mundane answer is that runes are an alphabet, a system of writing used by the ancient Germanic tribes."
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