goat charming?

[redwooddawn]

No: HPFGUIDX 173395

> Bart:
<snip>
> I've said before, and I'll say again, that I think it's an homage to
> the late Marion Zimmer Bradley. In her collection of stories about her
> magician/swordsman/woman Lythande the Star Browed, she had Lythande
> confront her arch rival in a town where a common insult was calling
> someone a "despoiler of young goats." I

redwood:
That sounds like a brilliant enough answer for me.  I just really hope it was all mere name-calling, and not a true habit of Aberforth's.