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From: "Bobbinlacemaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lace-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 11:27 AM
Subject: [lace] witches work


>"toveressekant" this is the flemish word for witchcraft, refering to the
very intricate and difficult designs (for which you need "magic" fingers,
haven't we all ???).>>

Should this not be called magician's lace instead of witches lace?  I would
translate "toveresse" as a fairy godmother like the one Cinderella had and
not a witch which has a nasty connotation???  What is a witch called in
Dutch?  We would call her a "heks" in Afrikaans.

Jeanette Fischer, Western Cape, South Africa.

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