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   XPost: alt.traditional.witchcraft   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:24:20 -0230, David Dalton    
   wrote:   
      
   >I understand that druid new moon, six days after new moon, so   
   >tomorrow (Tuesday) is the time when Breton druids cut the   
   >mistletoe with a golden sickle (shaped like the moon?).   
      
   The following lyrics, from the song Dirty Old Town, written   
   by Ewan MacColl but made famous by The Pogues, always   
   remind me of that sickle and moon.   
      
   I'm gonna make me a big sharp axe   
   Shining steel tempered in the fire   
   I'll chop you down like an old dead tree   
   Dirty old town   
   Dirty old town   
      
   So I equate the axe to the sickle and moon though the   
   axe in the song is steel, not golden or bronze.   
      
   Originally I thought the lyrics to be a bit gruesome   
   but someone on rec.music.celtic or rec.music.folk   
   told me the axe is the axe of social change, cutting   
   down the establishment to replace it with something   
   better (or words to that effect).   So no axe murder   
   is depicted in the song.    Also I think the town in   
   question is Manchester.   
      
   David   
      
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