In " Carpe Jugulum ", Terry Pratchett pastiches the traditions of vampire literature, playing with the mythic archetypes and featuring a tongue-in-cheek reversal of'vampyre'subculture with young vampires who wear bright clothes, drink wine, and stay up until noon.
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The Nac Mac Feegle clans that have appeared in the books are the Long Lake Clan, who settled in Lancre in " Carpe Jugulum " ( but were not named until " A Hat Full of Sky " ) and the Chalk Hill Clan who feature in the Tiffany Aching books.
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The story is the first since " Carpe Jugulum " to feature the Nac Mac Feegle, or Pictsies, six inch tall blue-painted red-haired fairies, who, according to their own history, rebelled against the wicked rule of the ( or possibly " a " ) Queen of the Fairies, and were therefore exiled from swords glow blue.
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Moist von Lipwig mistakes the dogs for pedigree Lipwigzers, ( probably Discworld Rottweilers, although Rottweilers are referred to as themselves in " Carpe Jugulum ", ) a particularly savage breed of dog, but one which, as a Lipwig, he is familiar with, and is quite intrigued to find that the commands used to discipline lipwigzers still work on them, ( though they may have only been responding to the tone and confidence shown by Moist . ) Harry prefers it when burglars break in, so that he doesn't have to feed the dogs.
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Unlike most'typical sayings'in the " Folio ", it is actually recorded that Granny says this, or at least Nanny Ogg says something very similar when she pretends to be Granny while briefly taking over the role of . . . the " other one ", due to Granny's temporary retirement and Agnes and Count de Magpyr saying or hearing it in their heads while under the influence of fragments of her mind, as well as Granny saying it while unconscious at exactly the same moment as the count doing so, in " Carpe Jugulum ".
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The "'Nac Mac Feegle "'( also sometimes known as Pictsies, Wee Free Men, and the Little Men ) are a type of fairy folk that appear in Terry Pratchett's " Discworld " novels " Carpe Jugulum ", " The Wee Free Men ", " A Hat Full of Sky ", " Wintersmith ", " I Shall Wear Midnight ", " Victorian concept of mystical and refined fairies, and hark back to the fairies of folklore, who were generally seen as occasionally helpful thieves and pests.
