Barks and magic

[Santiago Garcia Banhos]

>From: "Becca Ridout" <skyrat13 at hotmail.com>
>I can think of one exception to this. He wrote a christmas story where HDL
>wanted a steam shovel and actually drew Santa Claus and showed him using
>magic to get down the chiminey, with no explaination to spoil it's
>magicalness. (There was an editors note in the copy I have mentioning how
>unusual this was for Barks).

Thanks you Olaf, Don, Ari and Becca for your interesting responses. This
last  one confirms my perception that this kind of facts was uncommon in
Barks' stories. He tried to put things together so there could be always be
a rational explanation (even if it seemed as sci-fi). So, we could say his
scenarios were full of facts we may tell 'improbable' but not fully
'impossible' ;-)

Don:

>Yeah, but I'm not sure how Harpies/Larkies or Terries or Firmies or
>Gneezles or Valhalla or many other such characters figure into that
>explanation. After all, he did use magic, but just not witches... not
In my point of view, they are in fact 'rare' living beings but they behave
under natural laws: No superman-style superpowers. Even the people in
Valhalla deny they being gods.

>But I don't mind using an occasional ghost, though only in Castle McDuck
Neither do I. This kind of ghost might be understood as an allucination
Scrooge -or the Whiskervilles- have. And the same about the Heaven scene,
when the McDucks read the Destiny book to Scrooge: it might be seen as
Scrooge dreaming. I think it all has been made in a pretty way.

FABIO BLANCO:
>Obligatory Quote: Why a duck? :)
:-D

Greetings to all,

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