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Hey, this is Dana Schwartz. Just one quick note of housekeeping. If you are listening to this on

release day, today is also the release day of my brand new book, The Arcane Arts by S.D. Coverly.

S.D. Coverly is the pen name I use for me and my friend and co-writer, Dan Fry.

It is a magical fantasy book about a grad student and her professor studying illegal forbidden

magic and solving a murder mystery while they do it. If that at all interests you, please

pick up a copy of the Arcane Arts. We had a great

time writing it. I really think if you like this podcast, I think you'll enjoy it. That said,

let's get into the episode. Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of IHeart Radio and

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On May 26, 1826, a cobbler named Georg Leonard Weigman was walking through the town of Nuremberg.

Even though it was the afternoon, the city was sparse, almost abandoned.

It was a holiday and many of the town's residents were off in the countryside, enjoying

the nice spring weather. But something caught Vickman's eye as he walked. A young man,

maybe a teenager of 16 or 17, stumbling awkwardly down a nearby hill.

The boy was stocky, with an unusual lumbering gait and blue eyes that seemed to Vakman, almost

vacant. The boy shouted a phrase that can be translated to,

hey, lad, a casual greeting that masters would use to greet their apprentices. Oddly casual,

for a teenager to use toward an adult man in his 50s, which Beckman was. The boy also called out the name of

a street, and generously Vickman agreed to help the strange vagrant boy to his destination. It soon became

apparent that this boy only knew a few phrases, which he repeated over and over.

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