UK Pagan, an internet community for Pagans of all paths, and of none. - UK Pagan; The Valley

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Web Name: UK Pagan, an internet community for Pagans of all paths, and of none. - UK Pagan; The Valley

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Galaemar LaerareonWelcome Guest!Welcome to UK Pagan; The ValleyLike most online communities we require you to register for an account before we give youaccess to read and post.Only a small number of our forum areas can be read without registering for an account.UK Pagan has been an online home and discussion place since being founded in 2001. We pride ourselves on providing a safe space for active debate and conversation, and a place where followers of other religions are welcome providing they show respect and tolerance.We strive to be a place for all Pagans, whatever path, whatever stage of their learning; a place where Pagans discuss issues with tolerance and respect for others; and a neutral forum with no "site line" or "site view".We are made for the community and by the community.Visit our Pagan Community Some years ago I went to a Roman military reconstruction (might have been Ermine Street Guard or British Historical Society, as I've seen both).  Someone there had, as part if his kit, a sundial in a form similar to a pocket watch.  It was quite impressive. Anyhow, that wrist watches are still in common use is witnessed, I think, by the number that are displayed in jewellers' windows. i collect touchwood whenever I come across it.  It is a very fine powdery fibre that sometimes results from rotting birch branches.  It even comes wrapped in a waterproof package of thin bark.  It makes the most wonderful tinder for my Kelley Kettle. It will catch fire in a rainstorm.  Should my very superstitious mother bash her elbow she would always bash the other one.  I have no idea why even in the dubious logic of the superstitiously paranoid.  Is it my generation that sometimes use an army salute to acknowledge compliance?  I did see a (younger) friend use a glancing American salute as a form of sarcastic dismissal. i used to use the cheque signing gesture to request a bill.  I’d be very doubtful about a gesture indicating the insertion off a card. Probably moreso now with smart watches etc. I think the reference was to those strange and alien "young people" who have never worn a watch but use the gesture in any case. I remember with double-decker buses, the two storeys were refereed to as "inside" and "on top", which I always imagined came from the open top buses that come out in the summer in some places. Apparently, though, it's a survivor from the days of trams, but I wonder if it came from stagecoaches before then. Apologies for the digression ED - this has very little to do with "touch wood". I see pagan references almost everywhere but perhaps not in the way that the parts of buses get named. outdated signs, including looking at one's wrist when talking about what time it is "Touch wood" was often used by my father.  He would only touch his head if there was no wood to hand.  I have no idea of its origin.  I have used it, but rarely Is the technical equivalent of obsolete gestures the requirement to click, in order to save a document, an image of a floppy disc? There was something on the radio this morning or yesterday about outdated signs, including looking at one's wrist when talking about what time it is and miming signing a cheque when asking for a bill. (I'd never heard of the latter but apparently people do it.) It reminded me of someone pointing out that kids who have never seen a steam train move their arms like the old wheel bars (whatever they're called) when being a train. I had an aunt, Hampshire born and bred, who always said that. I say it partly in her memory. I have an Irish colleague who still says it quite a bit and tells me it's distinctively Irish. I have always understood that to touch wood averts malevolent forces / entities who might frustrate a stated and hoped for outcome.  Even in my Anglican household it was generally understood that benevolent nature spirits dwelled  within the natural material and would counter the malevolence.  Tapping ones head, as I interpreted it,  indicated that the head in question was also made of wood.  Gestures seem to prevail beyond their origins.  Most of my life, rotating an imaginary handle beside the head indicated a telephone call.  I’ve no idea whether it persists yet. The rotating operator call handle was obsolete three generations before mine never mind yours.  While working in forests near Oban it was quite usual to hear any statement of future activity followed by the caveat, “If I’m spared,” frequently accompanied by a furtive glance upward even by those to whom any threat was likely to come from the opposite direction. For some strange reason, my favourite donkey-themed pub name comes to mind - the Ass and ElbowUK Pagan; The Valley - For Pagans of all paths, and for Pagans of none, a Pagan community since 2001.

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