clavie การใช้

• The Clavie is a barrel cut down to 17 inches, which is filled with tar and bits of wood.
• The Burning of the Clavie, which still takes place in Burghead annually, has also been seen as a surviving pagan fire festival.
• The Burning of the Clavie continues to be celebrated on the former New Year's Evethat is, in the new calendar, on 11 January.
• The Clavie crew stop to present bits of smouldering embers to certain households and the three public houses in the village to bring them good luck for the following year.
• On 20 January 1689, the young men of the village were rebuked by the church courts for " having made a burning clavie, paying it superstitious worship, and blessing the boats after the old heathen custom ".
• A group of about 15 men known as the Clavie crew, traditionally fishermen and headed by the Clavie king, take turns to carry the burning Clavie on a set route clockwise round the streets of the old part of the town.
• A group of about 15 men known as the Clavie crew, traditionally fishermen and headed by the Clavie king, take turns to carry the burning Clavie on a set route clockwise round the streets of the old part of the town.
• A group of about 15 men known as the Clavie crew, traditionally fishermen and headed by the Clavie king, take turns to carry the burning Clavie on a set route clockwise round the streets of the old part of the town.
• At the end of the route the Clavie is put onto a stone altar ( which was not constructed until the 19th century ) upon Doorie Hill, although it is said that in the past the embers were kept as charms against witchcraft . It used to be customary to carry the Clavie round every boat and vessel in the harbour, but this part of the ceremony was later discounted, presumably because it became impossible as the harbour became busier.
• At the end of the route the Clavie is put onto a stone altar ( which was not constructed until the 19th century ) upon Doorie Hill, although it is said that in the past the embers were kept as charms against witchcraft . It used to be customary to carry the Clavie round every boat and vessel in the harbour, but this part of the ceremony was later discounted, presumably because it became impossible as the harbour became busier.