Death words

Grays loathe and thus shy away from reminders of death or dying. Death words—lamentations, dirges, poems about grief or loss, even a mortuary ad—could be used to dismiss or evict grays from a person's space. Members of Lethe frequently utilize death words to dispel any gray seeking to disrupt magic rites (this is because in many rituals, magic requires that the channels with the Veil remain open). Interestingly, mentioning words associated with death but not officially 'death words' seem to have no effect on grays. For example, mentioning graves and murder did not cause the Bridegroom (Betram Boyce North) to disperse. Alternatively, one could also throw grave yard dust to cast out grays when no death words come to mind.

Alex Stern's use of ladino sayings was also effective against banishing grays. This is due to the nature of the language. Also known as Judeo-Spanish, the expulsion from Spain led to the language of exiled Jews to develop in a process of mixing of dialects. Spoken by Sephardic minorities in more than 30 countries, no country reports the language as being used by the majority of people. It is described by Darlington as, "the language of the diaspora."
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