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The Skull (5.24)

The Young Widow of London produces from her bag the skull of her deceased husband, a grumbling old man whose dying curse was that she would not be able to remarry until she took his skull on Pilgrimage to Durham Cathedral. She tells them that as many times as she buried it, it would always return to her; even when she burned it on the fire, it would found the next day in the ashes. She'd even taken it on pilgrimage to other cathedrals, such as Canterbury, where she bought a plot of land in the grounds in which to bury it, but it was always waiting for her when she got home. That many men had come courting her, but they'd all been seen off by her husband's skull.

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from The Durham Pilgrims, released July 31, 2013

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'I feel like Wainwright - we are both hermetic ramblers. He made his books for when he was no longer capable of rambling his beloved fells, and I made my music for when I'm no longer able to ramble the by-ways of Albion - but only to listen, and think "Was that really me? That solitary figure who stood in a landscape dreaming of ages past in dread fear of the future."

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