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A priest a witch?

Following my earlier tweet about the strangely witchy West Country, here's a weird case from my notes.
In 1898 a woman from Chew Magna, Somerset, caused a scene in church by saying she'd shoot the parson, because he'd 'overlooked' her family.
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Fairy lingo! In C19th Ireland, there were lots of words and phrases concerning the fairies, in Irish and English.

‘Sheog’ was someone possessing a fairy charm, or spell.

‘Fairy money’ was fake, a politician’s phoney promise.

‘Fairy vision’ meant an illusion.
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Could you love, or lust after, a fairy? Goodwin Wharton, an English nobleman and politician, did. During the late 1600s, assisted by his cunning-woman lover, he repeatedly tried to arrange nocturnal meetings with the Fairy Queen.

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(Picture of his brother).

Hedgehog folklore! Why do people give hedgehogs milk, when the prickly things are lactose intolerant? Maybe the legacy of an older folkloric idea, still common in mid C20th Britain, that hedgehogs suckled milk from cows?

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