Words from an Imaginary Phrasebook

                                                                            Et

          one syllable spoken over an open fire, makes romance bloom from crude desire.

Shqum

rhymes with the sound of distant thunder, said as the drowning man goes under.

Hatherit

Third person singular to love in vain, its homonym is a word for pain.

San-tan-tavah

A curse word invoking demons with tails, only used when all else fails.

Mishtaroth

     Dinner before supper if no tea is taken. Or the other way round, if I’m not mistaken.

Callistaphy

        To write in blood with a finger-bone pen, the blood of women, the bones of men.

Ziggarid

The work of poets that is misunderstood, especially of those who aren’t very good.