Tag: phrase and fable

Here’s a question for you. Which word do Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Sound of Music, Sir Walter Scott’s Kenilworth, a 1970s Prog Folk group from South Africa, the Jesuits, and the Neolithic long barrow, Wayland’s Smithy, all have in common? Can you guess? Need a clue? Think – mischievous gossip, or ‘fly-by-the-gibbet’ Got it? The answer…