http://faerye.net/post/fantasy-trope-the-possessing-progenitor 2010-09-28T16:41:04+00:00 http://faerye.net/post/fantasy-trope-the-possessing-progenitor#comment-2705 2010-09-28T16:41:04+00:00 2010-09-28T16:41:04+00:00 <p>Ah! My own Mercedes Lackey phase was pretty squarely confined to Valdemar, so I didn’t know that. Interesting!</p> Felicity http://faerye.net http://faerye.net/post/fantasy-trope-the-possessing-progenitor#comment-2702 2010-09-28T13:48:03+00:00 2010-09-28T13:48:03+00:00 <p>I haven’t read this book for more than ten years, so I’m a little fuzzy on it, but I am pretty sure there was another mercedes lackey book, one featuring Diana Tregarde, that was very similar to the Buffy episode (which it predated), where the villain lived for generations giving birth to daughters and then switching bodies with them.</p> Enna http://faerye.net/post/fantasy-trope-the-possessing-progenitor#comment-2687 2010-08-31T12:08:52+00:00 2010-08-31T12:08:52+00:00 <p>Nope, I haven’t read that! I knew there’d be more instances floating around that I just hadn’t come across. Thanks!</p> Felicity http://faerye.net http://faerye.net/post/fantasy-trope-the-possessing-progenitor#comment-2686 2010-08-30T23:34:04+00:00 2010-08-30T23:34:04+00:00 <p>Have you ever read H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Thing on the Doorstep”? It features the same idea, though in this case it’s with a warlock who has general mind-switchy powers, and just chooses to use them on his child.</p> Kile