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Blackpool, they called it: Dubh Linn. To the ear it sounded “Doov Lin.”
Paganism never dies entirely. Most of the pagan rites of seedtime and harvest, of course, had already been incorporated under new names into the Christian calendar; and even some of the old inauguration rites of the kings, including that of mating with a mare, were still a fond memory.
