Tuesday, July 03, 2007
The Truth about the Aboriginal Folk of Britain___Part Seven
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The third Aboriginal Group that roamed this part of the WildWood, in the days before England became an island; were the Little People with Tusks.
Later, the Celtic invaders called them Elves.
I know rather more about this Elfin group, than the others, as I am descended from them, and still carry their genes.
They were called the Little People, because they were about half a yard (or half a metre) shorter than the other tribes.
The men used to wax their moustaches up into Tusks in order to look like the Sacred Pigs ( or Æpæ ) that they husbanded as a 'larder on the trotter'.
Unlike the other tribes, they had as much forehead above their eye-line as they had face below it.
Their Ears were upright, and somewhat hairy, but without the earlobes that the other tribes had.
Some of them had crimped tops to their ears giving an odd pointed look.
They had green eyes and glorious red hair that turned to silver in middle age.
Which is why Tolkien called them the ‘Silver Haired’ Elves.
Their hair was so fine in thickness, that it blew about in the slightest breeze, and had to be confined within a pointed cap, to prevent it becoming tangled in the branches of the trees and bushes they lived among.
Modern hairdressers, shy away from me whenever I visit their saloon; as my type of hair is the very devil to cut and style.
Which is why, I’ve reverted back to an Elfin Plume, that I can get under my hat.
Our beards were also a bit odd.... Walt Disney, heard the ancient folk memory, that we only wore our beard under our chin, so he depicted the Dwarves in Snow White in this manner.
The reason for this was quite simple.... we didn’t have a razor, as they hadn’t been invented yet.
Because we wanted to look like our pigs... we used to pluck out the whiskers of our beard as they appeared in adolescence, and kept them plucked.
However, whiskers have deep roots, and although they can be plucked out of the face, with only minor pain; it was a different situation on the neck.
Pulling the whisker just stretched the skin making it very difficult to pull it out.
So we had to give up trying and settle for a hairy muffler.
I’ll tell you more about my ancestors in the next part of this series.
So bookmark this blog and stay tuned for more interesting facts about our Aboriginal Ancestors.
The third Aboriginal Group that roamed this part of the WildWood, in the days before England became an island; were the Little People with Tusks.
Later, the Celtic invaders called them Elves.
I know rather more about this Elfin group, than the others, as I am descended from them, and still carry their genes.
They were called the Little People, because they were about half a yard (or half a metre) shorter than the other tribes.
The men used to wax their moustaches up into Tusks in order to look like the Sacred Pigs ( or Æpæ ) that they husbanded as a 'larder on the trotter'.
Unlike the other tribes, they had as much forehead above their eye-line as they had face below it.
Their Ears were upright, and somewhat hairy, but without the earlobes that the other tribes had.
Some of them had crimped tops to their ears giving an odd pointed look.
They had green eyes and glorious red hair that turned to silver in middle age.
Which is why Tolkien called them the ‘Silver Haired’ Elves.
Their hair was so fine in thickness, that it blew about in the slightest breeze, and had to be confined within a pointed cap, to prevent it becoming tangled in the branches of the trees and bushes they lived among.
Modern hairdressers, shy away from me whenever I visit their saloon; as my type of hair is the very devil to cut and style.
Which is why, I’ve reverted back to an Elfin Plume, that I can get under my hat.
Our beards were also a bit odd.... Walt Disney, heard the ancient folk memory, that we only wore our beard under our chin, so he depicted the Dwarves in Snow White in this manner.The reason for this was quite simple.... we didn’t have a razor, as they hadn’t been invented yet.
Because we wanted to look like our pigs... we used to pluck out the whiskers of our beard as they appeared in adolescence, and kept them plucked.
However, whiskers have deep roots, and although they can be plucked out of the face, with only minor pain; it was a different situation on the neck.
Pulling the whisker just stretched the skin making it very difficult to pull it out.
So we had to give up trying and settle for a hairy muffler.
I’ll tell you more about my ancestors in the next part of this series.
So bookmark this blog and stay tuned for more interesting facts about our Aboriginal Ancestors.
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