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CLAVIE, BURNING THE , an See also:ancient Scottish See also:custom still observed at Burghead, a fishing See also:village on the See also:Moray See also:Firth, near See also:Forres. The " clavie " is a See also:bonfire of casks split in two, lighted on the r2th of See also:January, corresponding to the New See also:Year of the old See also:calendar. One of these casks is joined together again by a huge See also:nail (See also:Lat. clavus; hence the See also:term). It is then filled with See also:tar, lighted and carried flaming See also:round the village and finally up to a headland upon which stands the ruins of a See also:Roman See also:altar, locally called " the See also:Douro." It here forms the See also:nucleus of the bonfire, which is built up of split casks. When the burning tar-See also:barrel falls in pieces, the See also:people scramble to get a lighted 1 See also:Mersenne, Harmonie universelle (See also:Paris, 1636), p. 113, calls the See also:clavicytherium " une nouvelle forme d'epinette dont on use en Italie," and states that the See also:action of the jacks and levers is parallel from back to front. 2 Musica getutscht and auszgezogen (See also:Basel, 1511). ' See " Une Piece unique du Musee Kraus de See also:Florence " in Annales de l'See also:alliance scientifique universelle (Paris, 1907). 'See See also:illustration by See also:William Gibb in A. J. Hipkins's Musical See also:Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique (1888). 6 See also:History of the See also:Pianoforte, See also:Novello's See also:Music Primers, No.

52 (1896), P. 75. 6 L'Antica Musica ridotta moderna prattica (See also:

Rome; 1555).piece with which to kindle the New Year's See also:fire on their cottage See also:hearth. The See also:charcoal of the clavie is collected and is put in pieces up the cottage chimneys, to keep See also:spirits and witches from coming down.

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