A Riddle
Hallowe’en, which Chalky in his writings on ritual preferred to call ‘The Hallows’, is a traditional time for riddles. Here is a riddle or bardic question that Chalky once posed me:
Who inspired the sweet feast of the hill? What was the history?
I will add here that I am not an initiate of any arcane tradition. I can answer the first question easily enough out of my reading in legends, folklore and poetry. As for the ‘history’: in the same sources there are various narratives with a bearing on this theme. I do not know for certain which ‘history’ Chalky had in mind, or exactly what it meant to him, though I think there are some clues in his writings.
