Adwell Fairies, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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 The Dancing Fairies of Adwell! 


Dancing Fairies.
Hand painted Lokta paper stamped using a dancing fairy from Lavinia Stamps. 

Welcome to another Witchy Wednesday, this week it's about the dancing fairies of Adwell Cop.

About Adwell.

Adwell lies on sloping ground that rises from 299 feet to over 490 on Adwell Cop which is crowned with a Bronze Age barrow. Plot observed entrenchments on the south-east side and erroneously attributed them to the Danes. (fn. 6) This tumulus is probably referred to in the name Copinghemewey which occurs in a document of about 1230. (fn. 7) It means 'the way of the people at the Cop'. The Cop was for long the object of local folklore. It was associated with fairies and the 18th-century antiquary Delafield records the story of the traveller who saw them dancing there and singing:


'At Adwell Cop there stands a cup.

Drink the drink and eat the sop,

And set the cup on Adwell Cop.' 


Taken from A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 8,Lewknor and Pyrton Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1964.

To read the whole volume please visit. 

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol8


Other sites to visit 

https://www.darkoxfordshire.co.uk/explore/fairies-and-goblins-at-adwell-cop/

https://historicoxfordshire.ashmolean.org/SitePages/adwell.html

https://www.adwellestate.com/history

YouTube video

James Shakeshaft reports back to Alasdair Beckett-King from the top of a local hill where there is a barrow. Expect (but don't necessarily accept) singing, stinging and an excellent reenactment of a touching moment from a classic film.


Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog, please pop by again next week for another Witchy Wednesday. Kat ☺️

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