Chewidden Thursday

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Chewidden Thursday (also known as White Thursday, Chewidden Day or Jew-whidn) was a festival celebrated by the tin miners of West Cornwall on the last clear Thursday (I.E. at least 1 week before) Christmas. The festival celebrated the discovery of 'white tin' or smelted tin by St Chiwidden a little known Cornish saint who in legend was an associate of St Piran.

Robert Hunt in Popular Romances of the West of England (1903) states

THE last Thursday--a clear week before Christmas day --was formerly always claimed by the tinners as a holiday, and was called by them White-Thursday (Jew-whidn), because on this day, according to tradition, black tin (tin ore) was first melted and refined into white tin. From Jew-whian to Chi-widden 'is an easy transition.

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