Message: "Hersilora and more"

Hersilora and more

by Eilis (Suibhne)

9/1/2014, 9:48 PM

I had occasion to go to a local cemetery this week (in downstate Michigan, US) and was pleased to find some unusual names. Some I'd heard before I hadn't. The best of the bunch:

Hersilora
Tryphena
Mima
Percena
Fidelia
Mariamne
Zerah
Dwella
Orpha

Philetus
Otis
Tisdale
Rufus (I don't care for it personally, but I was surprised to see so many that were not obviously related)
Elam
Gershom
Erastus
Eliakim

What do you think?

Hersilora was my favorite by a mile. So odd and unusual.

"He was healthy to the point of heathendom and he acknowledged no power but his own."

Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy

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- Caprice +1

9/2/2014, 4:01 AM

Fidelia and Rufus are cute names (although Rufus is a dog or a cat to me).
The rest are too strange for my taste. Hersilora, Tryphenia and Philetus sound like germs.

- Eilis (Suibhne)

9/2/2014, 10:45 AM

Germs

Oh no, you're right; those names do sound like germs, or illnesses of some kind. Gross.

I like Fidelia also. It's one of the more normal among them, I think it's quite pretty.

This message was edited 9/2/2014, 10:45 AM

- **Hiddlestoner_26** (Lady_Skywalker)

9/1/2014, 10:11 PM

The only ones I like a Elam and Eliakim. I think the rest would be awful on real people, though they would work well in a fantasy story or game .

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