It was believed that supplying this kind offer of rest kept the witches on their side and avoided having something nasty happen to them. Another such superstition was about Pouques. See here all about them. I'm not sure if this word was of French origin, but this is an explanation about them. It got me wondering whether we get our word "spooky" from it.
In other news, I went for the follow-up appointment to have a dental bridge fitted. It started here. It was supposed to be three weeks between the dentist fitting the temporary bridge and the permanent one. Halfway into the first appointment to fit the temporary bridge, the dentist informed me that his lab technician was away on holiday and the 3- week interval would not be possible. Great! Because of my holiday in Guernsey, it meant that I had a six-week interval before the permanent version could be fitted. Suffice to say, I was terrified for the entire six weeks that the temporary bridge would come loose especially while I was on holiday, so I was armed with a cement mix I could use if the worst happened and I made sure I had good health insurance cover while on Guernsey.
The second fitting went well. The dentist gave me an anaesthetic injection which meant I couldn't feel a thing until well into the three hours back home again. It was then I noticed a problem. The bridge teeth look from the top like the top of pearl barley, with tiny slits instead of the bowl-shape I am used to.
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| image courtesy of "from the comfort of my bowl" |
Which means when I eat anything doughy like bread, cereal, crisps, the food chewed into a paste gets really stuck in the slits and makes my bite difficult between upper and lower teeth. I'm tempted to complain (after all this has cost me nearly £5000, but my dentist son-in-law assures me (when I asked his advice) that I should give it more time to get used to the feel of it. I'm not convinced.
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Don't think I ever heard of pouques before. Sorry you're not all comfortable with the dental bridge. I'd suggest talking to the dentist who put it in.
Pouques is new to me too. I have contacted the dentist!
I am sure that when you were in Guernsey you had an instinctive urge to climb up those chimneys to try out the little resting places. When training to be a dentist I wonder if the courses include sadism, incompetence and maximising profit.
There is a difference between real discomfort, when something is wrong, and simply needing to get used to something. Hopefully, your bridge will be sorted out properly without too much trouble (and at no extra cost to you, since it's not your fault it wasn't done right in the first place!).
I can not remember anything about poques from my Jersey holiday; nearly everything was somehow or other related to wartime and the German occupation which has left a very deep scar in the collective memory of Channel Islands folk.
But there was a Devil's Hole on Jersey, and we visited on Friday the 13th, as I have only just now realised when I went back to my 2016 posts!
Interesting tales about witches ledges and pouques!! I use a waterpik and it’s brilliant at cleaning any nooks and crannies in your teeth
It was very hilly there, so a resting point would have been welcome, though I'm not sure I could have got on a roof.
Thank you Meike. I am getting it sorted next week.
I am indeed tempted to buy a waterpik and will ask my dentist about which one to get.
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