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sionnach commented on the word gyre-carline
This is in some parts of Scotland the name given to a woman suspected of witchcraft, and is from gyre, the Teutonic geier, a vulture, and carline, an old woman.
April 25, 2009
qms commented on the word gyre-carline
See gyre-carlin.
October 31, 2017