Chewidden Thursday

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Chewidden Thursday (also known as White Thursday, Chewidden Day or Jew-whidn) was a festival celebrated by the

Robert Hunt in Popular Romances of the West of England states:

The last Thursday – a clear week before Christmas Day – was formerly always claimed by the tinners as a holiday, and was called by them White-Thursday (Jew-whidn), because on this day, according to tradition, black tin (tin ore) was first melted and refined into white tin. From Jew-whidn to Chi-widden is an easy transition.^[2]

See also

• Picrous Day
• Tom Bawcock's Eve
• St Piran's Day

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