Some Little Known Aspects of Kuian Rain-making Rituals by Ezrolith Churn

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Title: Some Little Known Aspects of Kuian Rain-making Rituals (7 volumes)

Author: Ezrolith Churn, Archchancellor of Unseen University 

Publisher: not known, but in seven volumes 

Source book: Eric by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #9)

Ezrolith Churn was not expecting to become Archchancellor at the grand old age of 98. He was hoping to spend his declining years completing his seven volume treatise on Some Little Known Aspects of Kuian Rain-making Rituals, which were, in his opinion, an ideal subject for academic research. The rain-making rituals had only ever worked in Ku, and that continent had slipped slowly into the ocean several thousand years ago. It took thirty years. Which I suppose gave the Ku people plenty of time to move away.

Churn now finds himself dealing with a failed exorcism. The wizards had used Humptemper’s Names of the Ants, and I am sorry to say there is no information about this fascinating sounding book. Except that it was used in a failed exorcism.

Also mentioned in Eric are The Joy of Tantric Sex with Illuminations for the Advanced Student, by A Lady; 

Mallificarum Sumpta Diabolicite Occularis Singularum, 

the Book of Ultimate Control, The Octavo, which is stored in a welded iron box at the bottom of a specially dug shaft. It contains the Eight spells that make up the world. In The Colour of Magic, The Octavo is chained to an octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor of a little room off the main library at Unseen University. 

Then there are the (at least) 93 volumes of the Commentaries on the Unhealthy and Unsafety Regulations Governing the Lifting and Moving of Large Objects. The actual Regulations run to 1,440 volumes. Part 1, that is.

And…. Finally there is the Demonologie. Which seems to list every demon ever. Or perhaps not. Eric is disappointed not to find Rincewind in the list. Well, of course not. He’s a wizard.

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