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Pint of Beer - Golowan Festival Event Cache

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Hidden : Tuesday, June 23, 2015
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Terrain:
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Where: Wildwood Sports Bar & Grill
When: June 23, 2015 from 1830-2000
Who: Festive Cachers
What: A celebration of beer, caching, and Summer
Why: To enjoy a pint of beer, swap geocaching stories, and celebrate Golowan.
How: Any means available.

In Cornwall, the festival Fires, called Bonfires, are kindled on the Eve of St. John the Baptist and St. Peter's Day; and Midsummer is thence, in the Cornish tongue, called 'Goluan,' which signifies both light and rejoicing. At these Fires the Cornish attend with lighted torches, tarr'd and pitch'd at the end, and make their perambulations round their Fires, and go from village to village carrying their torches before them; and this is certainly the remains of the Druid superstition, for 'faces praeferre,' to carry lighted torches, was reckoned a kind of Gentilism, and as such particularly prohibited by the Gallick Councils: they were in the eye of the law 'accensores facularum,' and thought to sacrifice to the devil, and to deserve capital punishment.


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