These picture books aren't so eager to immure gender, to make non-conformance a new form of conformity, as I thought they were.
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Word of the Day : lock up or confine, in or as in a jail _________ The word immure has appeared in 11 articles on nytimes.
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Because, ultimately, the best way for any of us to move on and honor the victims was to keep living out our lives in concert halls, restaurants, bars, and public spaces, and not immure ourselves in our homes in grief.
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Meanwhile, intruders invaded the country. Gorda leaves for battle. People demand conformation with Javara’s prophecy. Javara grabs away son from Irema and heads to fortress to immure him.
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Oracle turns out to be Javara who recognizes the loved one. Javara is delighted as the revenge has come. She gives Mamia an arrow (which struck eagle). "The only way to build indestructible fortress is to immure son of the owner of the arrow in the wall" – says the oracle.
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Living victims were once entombed as a sacrifice to the gods and to ensure the stability of the building. Grimm remarked "It was often thought necessary to immure live animals and even men in the foundation, on which the structure was to be raised, to secure immovable stability."Teutonic Mythology (1883–1884), (trans. Stalleybrass) This gruesome practice is well evidenced, in multiple cultures.
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He sees a set of tools in Green's home which he realizes were not used for murder or torture, but to immure Helen in the basement. Black and the police dismantle a newly finished plaster wall, finding Helen injured but alive; it is at this point that Black realizes Green was simply a pawn, used by his father to lure victims to the house.
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A very similar Romanian legend, that of Meşterul Manole, tells of the building of the Curtea de Argeş Monastery: ten expert masons, among whom Master Manole himself, are ordered by Neagu Voda to build a beautiful monastery, but incur the same fate, and decide to immure the wife who will bring them luncheon. Manole, working on the roof, sees her approach, and pleads with God to unleash the elements, in order to stop her, but in vain: when she arrives, he proceeds to wall her in, pretending to be doing so in jest, with his wife increasingly crying out in pain and distress. When the building is finished, Neagu Voda takes away the masons' ladders, fearing they will build a more beautiful building, and they try to escape but all fall to their death. Only from Manole's fall a stream is created.
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