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November 04, 2002

The plaguenation of a clicketing capelthwaite

words of the day:

capelthwaite: In the county of Westmoreland . . . there was formerly a belief in the existence of a being called a capelthwaite. he had the power of appearing in the form of any quadraped, but usually chose that of a large black dog. Fifty years ago [from 1879, that is..ed.] there was, perhaps still is, in the parish of Beetham, near the town of Milnthorpe, a barn called Capelthwaite Barn, as having been the residence of such a being. He was very well disposed towards the occupants of the barn . . .[but] towards all other persons he appears to have been very spiteful and mischevious . . .A man of the neighborhood who returned home late at night, tipsy, assured his wife that he had met the capelthwaite, who threw him over a hedge and deprived him of his articles of dress.

plaguenation: A barbarously formed substitute for damnation

clicketing: A fox is said to go a-clicketing when he is desirous of copulation.

let's all send me a quick sentence, using all three, shall we?

Posted by Heather at November 4, 2002 12:00 AM

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