From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11404 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, May 20 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11404 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Accidently cures burn victimâs skin ["Eye Creams" Subject: Accidently cures burn victimâs skin Accidently cures burn victimbs skin http://papajohns.rest/hDH4UKnKC8eIskVqYuCeEBK0OtUbjdCV8oBoHmYj2O9WY89Hdg http://papajohns.rest/lY0FjTrTkRZ4JmApeNal_OdGl1IbBN95WL1rtSwZu55uN7wWGg n 1807 an anonymous observer suggested that the term hoden was linked to the Anglo-Saxon god Woden, and that the tradition might be "a relic of a festival to commemorate our Saxon ancestors landing in Thanet". In 1891 it was suggested that the custom had once been known as "Odining", a reference to the early medieval Scandinavian god Odin. The author of this idea further suggested that the custom had begun either with the ritual wearing of the skins of horses sacrificed to Odin, or as an early Christian mockery of such Odinic practices. Maylam noted that he was initially attracted to the idea that the term hodening had derived from Wodenban Old English name that he thought a more likely origin than the Old Norse Odinbbut that upon investigating this possibility found "no sufficient evidence" for it. He added that it would seem unlikely that the W would be lost from Woden in the Kentish dialect, citing the example of Woodnesborough, a Kentish village whose name is often interpreted as having derived from Woden and which clearly retains its use of W. He concluded that "one feels that the theory is based on inferences and analogies not strong enough for a foundation to carry the building erected on them". The idea of linking the tradition to Woden was also dismissed as unlikely by both Burne and Cawte. Believing it likely that the hoodening tradition "substantially pre-dates" its earliest textual appearances, the folklorist Geoff Doel suggested the possibility that it had originated as a Midwinter rite to re-energise the vegetation. As evidence for this claim, Doel noted that other English winter folk customs, such as the Apple Wassail, have also been interpreted in thi ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11404 ***********************************************