BABCARY, Somersetshire
Site of Wimble Toot
Glastonbury Zodiac
Bronze-age round barrow
Note: Toot derived from Old English tot meaning, a lookout point.
BABCARY, Somersetshire
Site of Wimble Toot
Glastonbury Zodiac
Bronze-age round barrow
Note: Toot derived from Old English tot meaning, a lookout point.
CLEOBURY MORTIMER, Shropshire
Name from Old English
Clifu meaning a steep place
Church has crooked spire
I have written three versions of this word because it is very complicated to explain in 17 syllables.
ABRACADABRA – Ab’r achad ab’ra (Aramaic and/or Arabic origin
1.Concerning the bull
it’s the one and only one
a name for the sun
2. Used by magicians
to perform their magic tricks
a magical spell
3. A magical spell
inscribed on an amulet
to cure deadly ills
For those readers with a mind to do so, I hope you ask yourself the question: is there such a thing as magic? Sir James George Frazer in his book the Golden Bough thought so.
He explained that contagious and homeopathic magic (both generally referred to as sympathetic magic) were valid and practiced throughout the world in one form or another. This magic (these magics) basically formed the basis of our religions.
I have always wanted to throw the cat among the pigeons Ah yes! it’s a full moon.
TREWHIDDLE, Cornwall
Francis P. Pascoe
noted entomologist
studied beetles here
THERSITICAL
Scurrilous, foul-mouthed
words have beauty all their own.
I say, bite your tongue
LEIGH de la MERE (St. Margaret), Wiltshire
King Alfred camped here
Attacked Danes at Eddington
Saxon king’s palace
PETTY FRANCE, Gloucestershire
Not remrkable
not much history to tell
not written, that is.
TOPONYM
Word for a place name
Especially one derived
from local features
STOW on the WOLD, Gloucestershire
\Where the wind blows cold
Town’s patron was St. Edward
\Once called Edwardstow
UTTOXETER, Staffordshire
Varied history
Luttuc’s homestead on the heath
Roman garrison
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