A Vanishing Act In English Skies
Cornwall Braces for Eclipse
By T. R. Reid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, August 1, 1999; Page A01
For pagans, totality will be the
most important two minutes of the
decade," said Andy Norfolk, an
amiable landscape architect and druid
bard who is one of tens of thousands
in this corner of Britain
still practicing ancient celestial
religions. They will gather
-- at henges, quoits and stone
altars erected here long before
Christ was born -- to worship the
meeting of the sun and the
moon.
"Oh, yes, we'll have druids, necromancers
[sorcerers], New Agers -- the
whole sun-worshiping lot," said
a smiling Gage Williams, a retired
British Army general who has been
appointed Cornwall's eclipse
czar. "But they don't influence
my planning, because most of
them live here anyway
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