Let’s Talk About Our Feelings about the Let’s Talk About Our Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Let’s Talk About Our Feelings about the Let’s Talk About Our

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Rainy_Day_Woman who wrote (3409)	8/13/2006 8:38:03 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) of 5290

Goat crowned King of Ireland at ancient fair August 11, 2006 A goat named Louis was crowned King of Ireland yesterday in one of the country's oldest festivals. Each year a wild male mountain goat is caught in the foothills of Carrauntoohill, Ireland's highest mountain, and paraded through the country town of Killorglin as part of the Puck Fair - an annual festival of music, drinking and dancing. The goat then reigns for three days from a platform 15 metres above the town's streets. No one knows for sure the origins of the fair, which is expected to attract more than 100,000 visitors this year, and has long been held on August 10-12. Jean Kearney, a spokeswoman for the festival, said there were many wildly inventive legends about how it began but no written record of the first event. "It has been suggested that it is linked to pre-Christian celebrations of a fruitful harvest and that the male goat or 'Puck' was a pagan symbol of fertility, like the pagan god Pan." Another theory suggests the festival began in honour of a goat who warned Killorglin residents of an impending attack by English leader Oliver Cromwell in the 17th century. This year's King Puck is named Louis after the French Sun King and has an almost 70-centimetre horn span. He is kept in a special pen during his reign and fed a regular mountain diet of nuts, wild herbs, holly leaves, saplings and tender grasses. Louis will be dethroned and returned to the wild on Saturday. smh.com.au

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next