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Sidetrails #6 — Pukwudgies And Redcaps

September 9, 2021, by JimC

When the air quality index indicates that the air is merely unhealthy for sensitive persons, you get out there and go. Today’s ramble sent me down a sidetrail — literally and metaphorically.

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As most of you already know, I am easily diverted onto a sidetrail into the realm of folklore. All it took was a brief reference to Hogsback in the Eastern Cape of South Africa to send me hieing off in a pursuit that led me from spooky South African forests to Pukwudgie territory in New England. And now Paul McNamee has a perilous mission…

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Comments

  1. Paul+McNamee says

    September 9, 2021 at 1:27 pm

    Well, that’s an interesting creature…

    Reply
  2. deuce says

    September 11, 2021 at 9:52 am

    There are redcap references in Robert Low’s A DISH OF SPURS, which I just read. A fine book, and NOT just because it’s centered on Liddesdale.

    Reply
    • JimC says

      September 11, 2021 at 12:24 pm

      Those Reiver yarns are a fine coda to Low’s career.

      Reply

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