Nickanan Night, also known as Roguery Night or Peasen Monday, is a revered #Cornish tradition held on the Monday before #ShroveTuesday. Initially centered on pea splitting, it has evolved into a festivity marked by youthful mischief.
As twilight falls, youths armed with short clubs engage in door-knocking escapades, seeking pancakes from households. Mysterious disappearances of household items add intrigue, with items reappearing the next day as tokens of revelry. In locales like Polperro, festivities culminate in the procession of 'Jack-o-Lent', symbolizing Judas Iscariot. It was paraded through the streets and pelted with rotten vegetables. It was then taken to the beach where it was ceremonially burned — which also recall #Celts and #Imbolc festival.
14 Jan 1581: Nicholas Rosscarrock, #Cornish hagiographer, racked & tortured #otd in the Tower of #London
Perhaps the first Catholic layman to be racked?
Rugby World Cup: Why the Welsh anthem sounds familiar in Breton.
The uncanny similarity between the Wales and Brittany anthems could see French fans joining in as the Welsh belt out Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau at the Rugby World Cup.
Breton, along with Cornish, is the surviving Celtic language most closely related to Welsh.
Lizardite, a green serpentine-subgroup mineral is surprisingly not named for lizards, but for The Lizard, in Cornwall, also strangely not named for lizards but rather for “Lys Ardh” the Cornish High Court.
I will give Rhodochrosite the art vote. It does appear in jewelry, but really it’s for strictly aesthetic “forbidden bacon” reasons. I mean look at it! #MinCup23
Match 16 pits unashamedly pink #Rhodochrosite against scaly green #Lizardite. Even if the rose-tinted glasses make the grass look greener, you can only pick one!
A Cornish Pasty factory has installed a 131.2kw solar system which will supply at least 20% of it's yearly power needs. More impressively, on one very sunny day, it met 98% of their power needs at that point!
Today it’s the #Yew - a tree I’ve been intrigued by ever since we first came across this big old yew tree next to #Wilmington church here in #Sussex. It’s over 1,500 years old and pretty amazing! 1/x
@StephanieJane oh that’s so nice to hear, that you used to live in Polegate! St Mary’s church is in OldTown, near Waitrose.. it has also has this intriguing old #Cornish plinth (?? definitely not the right word … will come back to this when i remember) wasn’t there a #atandingstones hashtag here? Would love to learn more