churn-charm

Updated: May 6, 2025

Hunting one day, I went to a little cothouse there and asked for something to eat A field of unreaped barley stood ripe and dry before the door. Out the housewife went and cut some straws of it, while her daughter shook cream in a bottle, chanting a churn-charm the while.

Neil Munro - John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn