PAR, Cornwall
Par is clay country
Kaolin or China Clay
Used to make paper
PAR, Cornwall
Par is clay country
Kaolin or China Clay
Used to make paper
BABCARY, Somersetshire
Site of Wimble Toot
Glastonbury Zodiac
Bronze-age round barrow
Note: Toot derived from Old English tot meaning, a lookout point.
CURRY RIVEL, Somersetshire
Site of Roman house
Name comes from Celtic crwy
meaning boundary
Note: Rivel from its landlord Sir Richard Revel
HOBGOBLIN
Something causing fear
a bogy to overcome
an evil spirit
MEVAGISSEY, Cornwall
Once called Porthilly
Old parish name Limorrick
well known for Pilchards
CLEOBURY MORTIMER, Shropshire
Name from Old English
Clifu meaning a steep place
Church has crooked spire
LONDON APPRENTICE, Cornwall
St. Austell hamlet
a tin-mining settlement
A true Cornish place
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.
CAVIL
Blow against the fur*
he cavils at all I say
only to find fault
Note: To blow against the fur comes from the practice of furriers to blow against a pelt to find imperfections.
Come to Good, Cornwall
Cwm ty Coit Cornish
Thought to mean coombe in the wood
Quaker it turns out
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