Hoot, hoot! Jenny Clouston at ye service. Experiments with the HTML5 web speech API.
Jennet Clouston is a marginal character from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Kidnapped". The main character David Balfour encounters the stout, dark, sour-looking woman on his way to the House of Shaws in Southern Scotland, the castle of his anchestors.
Asked for the way to the mansion, Jennet casts one of the best curses in literature on the House of Shaws and it's current landlord, Ebenezer Balfour.
"That is the house of Shaws!" she cried. "Blood built it; blood stopped the building of it; blood shall bring it down. See here!" she cried again -- "I spit upon the ground, and crack my thumb at it! Black be its fall! If ye see the laird, tell him what ye hear; tell him this makes the twelve hunner and nineteen time that Jennet Clouston has called down the curse on him and his house, byre and stable, man, guest, and master, wife, miss, or bairn -- black, black be their fall!"
Taken from: About.com - Classic Literature
Browse to index.html and enter your foes's name and house. (If you don't enter anything the defaults from the novel will be used.)
- Using Web Speech Api
- Browser support: caniuse, gives you a rough idea, but this depends also on your system.
Non-third party files are licensed under the WTFPL.
But a word once spoken who can recapture it?
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped