A few months ago, the Pundits recorded a segment for PotterCast that never get used. As we’re beginning to do the Pundits shows live this coming week, there may not ever be time to fit this segment into a PotterCast. So I’ve posted it as a stand-alone Pundits episode through The Hog’s Head PubCast!
PubCast #82 is the segment as prepared for PotterCast
PubCast #77 has an extra 8 minutes that wouldn’t fit into the PotterCast segment.
Enjoy!
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I was listening to an excellent Librovox podcast this morning of Rudyard Kipling’s excellently written short story “Rikki-Tiki Tavi.” I remember reading the story as a kid and was highly entertained by the reader’s rendering. What I had not remembered was that the black, male and female cobras in the story are named, respectively, Nag and Nagaina. Is Voldemort’s snake coincidentally named? Probably not. I just took it as further evidence of Ms. Rowling’s extensive reading and understanding of children’s literature in general. Keep up the good work!
Nan, yes! And not only that, but both authors, Kipling and Rowling, were certainly aware of Hindu mythology, which involved a phoenix-like character called the Garuda, and serpents called “Nagas.” You can read about it briefly here, and I explore it at a little more length in my book.