PIPESTONE – (Pipestone County) Minnesota
Named for stone quarried
for hand-carved calumet pipes
Ritual peace pipes
PIPESTONE – (Pipestone County) Minnesota
Named for stone quarried
for hand-carved calumet pipes
Ritual peace pipes
BAN SIDHE (Banshee)
Old Irish, Fairy
Vengeful if one offends them
Clodhna their Queen
IN FRONT OF THE BARRACKS
At the barrack front
She stands beneath a lamp post
there my love awaits
SWORD WORDS
Broadsword Claymore Foil
Scimitar Sabre Cutlass
Epée Rapier
Note: Just mucking about on my day off.
BABCARY, Somersetshire
Site of Wimble Toot
Glastonbury Zodiac
Bronze-age round barrow
Note: Toot derived from Old English tot meaning, a lookout point.
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.
CITTERN
A stringed instrument
looks like a flat-backed Mandolin
Casual music
MUSETTE
A bagpipe from France
Bellows blown, tone like oboe
baroque at its best
RECORDER
Internal duct flute*
in the group of instruments
well known as Woodwinds
* Internal Duct flute: A flute with a whistle also referred to as “fipple mouthed”
METRONOME
Device with sound clicks
Audible beats per minute
help for musicians
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