Chewidden Thursday (also known as White Thursday, Chewidden Day or Jew-whidn) was a festival celebrated by the tin miners of West Cornwall on the last...
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Saint Piran's Flag Scillonian Cross Festivals AberFest Allantide Chewidden Thursday Furry Dance Golowan Guldize Kernewek Lowender Montol Festival Mummer's...
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Saint Piran's Flag Scillonian Cross Festivals AberFest Allantide Chewidden Thursday Furry Dance Golowan Guldize Kernewek Lowender Montol Festival Mummer's...
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other principal traditional occupations: mining. Picrous Day and Chewidden Thursday seem to have similar origins to Tom Bawcock's Eve. The only similar...
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Saint Piran's Flag Scillonian Cross Festivals AberFest Allantide Chewidden Thursday Furry Dance Golowan Guldize Kernewek Lowender Montol Festival Mummer's...
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Cheel – child especially girl "a boy or a cheel" Cheldern – children Chewidden Thursday – a miners' festival (in use after the year 1800, from Cornish language...
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Saint Piran's Flag Scillonian Cross Festivals AberFest Allantide Chewidden Thursday Furry Dance Golowan Guldize Kernewek Lowender Montol Festival Mummer's...
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Cornish miners also celebrated St Piran's Day (5 March) and Chewidden Thursday (the Thursday before Christmas), purportedly the day on which St Piran rediscovered...
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Gaudete Sunday (Western Christianity) Thursday of the last full week before Christmas: December 17 Chewidden Thursday (Cornwall) National Regifting Day (United...
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Other miners' holidays of a similar nature include Picrous Day and Chewidden Thursday. The miners of Breage and Germoe observed St Piran's feast day as...
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