Saying about eating diffrerent food

""I am loth to chainge my mill" - Somerset

i.e. Eat of another dish."

Ray 1768

Macabre somerset proverb about chickens

A Capon... By Mai-Linh Doan via Wikipedia  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic license.

"The chicken crams the capon." - Somerset

Ray 1768












[This is actually very grim - a capon is the carcus of a castrated male chicken.  Thus my reading is that it is saying that a weak will dine on the flesh of another who is weaker... Nice... Bit like the whole mad cow thing as well...]

Unlucky in Devon - 29

Eating a fish - By self-made [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

It is unlucky

"To eat any kind of fish from the head downwards, as it is against the grain."

Hewett 1900

Devon Dreams O - R

"The following few examples shew " the stuff which dreams are made of."

Oats. 
Are lucky omens of success.

Onions.
If you dream you are eating them you will find much money.

Pall. 
One over a coffin is prophetic of a wedding dress.

Parcel.
If you carry one you should receive a foreign letter.

Quarrels.
If you dream of them it is a sign that you will soon be very profitably engaged in a business matter.

Rain.
Is an omen of misfortune.

Rats. 
Prophesy enemies near at hand.

Hewett 1900

Devon Dreams D - F

"The following few examples shew " the stuff which dreams are made of."

Dancing. 
This is fortunate. You will gain riches, honour, and many friends. Your life will be long, happy, and prosperous.

The Dead.
To dream of the dead brings news of the living.

Ducks.
To see them in a pond swimming about is an omen of good luck.

Eggs. 
That you are eating eggs shews you will be delivered from great tribulation. That you break them when raw, shews loss of friends and fortune.

Empty Vessels
Shew that your life will be one of toil and privation.

Eating.
Portends sickness and death.

Fish.
To dream of fish shows that you will have an abundance of wealth and good things. Also that you will be successful in love.

Fire.
To dream of fire shews that you will have hasty news.

Flowers.
Always a good dream ; is a sure sign of of joy, success and prosperity. "

Hewett 1900

Hewett's Haloween - Part 4 - Apple and comb love-charm

"After this, one of the girls took an apple, a comb, and a mirror, and retired to the brightest corner of the room, where she began to comb out her long tresses with her left hand and held an apple in the right, which she slowly ate. Her future husband was expected to look over her shoulder, revealing his face to her in the mirror. He did not, however, satisfy our curiosity by putting in an appearance."

Hewett 1900

Map - Haldon Hills 

Some Cornish Pilchard Lore

"Cornish Sardines" Pilchards, Newlyn, 2004  - Richard Greenwood [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

"The pilchards are the especial treasure of the Cornish fishermen; and when tidings come of vast shoals of "the silvery fish having passed the Land's End like a marine army, led by its chief, King Pilchard," the men of the coast are eager to meet them. Immense quantities are taken, and bring comfort to many a seaside home. There are even superstitions attached to these piscatory guests. If, when they are packed side by side after salting, a loud noise is heard - the breaking of the air-bladders in the fish - it is a good omen; they are thought to be calling to more pilchards to follow them. It is also considered unlucky to eat a pilchard from the head; it should be eaten from the tail, say the fisher folk of Mousehole and Newlyn."

Valentine (undated)

Map - Land's End

Map - Mousehole

Map - Newlyn