Fez of Brigadoon

By Kent Jenkins (jenkins@infinet.com)

Description

The Fez is an unusual but useful hat that, when worn and concentrated upon, allows the wearer to speak any language (one at a time) to any group of people, but not to understand them. Naturally the wearer will understand her own words.

There are tales told, sometimes, of the Golden Tassel of Brigadoon, the original topping to the Fez, that itself allows the wearer to understand (but not speak) any language concentrated upon.

The two, legend has it, were removed from one another in a great but ancient ceremony, for what purpose escapes the author, never having studied Middle Eastern Changeling Society all that closely, but it probably was fairly important.