Thanks Biplane! Your love is not in vain on this board either! I appreciate you asking Ray about that particular word, I'm very curious to know what he says. Thanks again, keep on truckin!

Check out my previous post as I simply added to it after calling Ray. There is your answer.

Thank you so much biplane/Michael! I guess it's not the answer I was searching for but hey it is an answer. I think, probably I am the one intellectualizing it too much, still an intriguing word and it does seem to crop up a lot in his writings. I like it I think because it seems to have connotations of mystery and a little of the macabre as in "The witch murmured her spell"...