… they don’t spare any turkeys at Christmas either
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Yes, but also back then, small rural villages were much more insular than they are now, and the old ways were still remembered, to some extent. Paganism wasn’t some half-remembered story, it was something that was still a small part of the life of older people in rural communities, in the form of small rituals and superstitions. Although, more like ‘putting out food for the fairies’, rather than ‘burning the nosy copper’.
Even though it was the 1980’s when I grew up in a small village, and one much less remote than a Scottish island, I still automatically side with the villagers rather than the outsider.
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All Cops Are Burnt-offerings.
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is still.
Go live outside, tend plants, raise livestock, hunt. You learn fast why people revere the forces and cycles of nature.
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