Monday, May 31, 2010

The Green Jack...

Other-Half asked this morning, "So why 'Jack'?  Why not...'Graham'?"

But I'm having a hard time imagining him with the same devilish magic if he was called the 'Green Graham'!

5 comments:

Anonymous said... 1

Knowing some of the stories, so am I!

A mermaid in the attic said... 2

He he, it was just a name off the top of his head, so could just have easily been 'Nigel' or 'Barry'. Hmmm, the Green Nigel...nup, just doesn't have the same ring to it!

Valerianna said... 3

Its interesting to consider the power in a name... for sure can't see Green Nigel, or Barry... Jack suits. I wonder... there's the Jack in the box... which is loaded with sexual connotations. The Green Graham sounds a bit like a mint flavored biscuit!

A mermaid in the attic said... 4

Interesting you should say that Valerianna. I read ages ago, and can't for the life of me think where, that back in times past when Beltaine/May Day was celebrated as a real fertility festival, and festival participants used to pair off and 'celebrate' in the woods, that children (or specifically boys I guess) who were born 9 months later were called Jack's sons (or 'Jackson'), as their human fathers weren't known and they were considered to be children of the fertility god. Might sound to us a bit like a convenient excuse for an unexplained pregnancy, but it could also be seen as a night when every man was believed to embody the fertility God, and every woman the Goddess, and so there was a real sense that these children were special. Who knows!

Valerianna said... 5

Oh, interesting... I think I might have a vague remembrance of that. Maybe that's why the "Green Jack" fits so well, there's an ancestral memory of the wild god "Jack" in there somewhere... !

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