The festivals still celebrated by the Cornish miners are probably Christmas survivals of the Pagan customs of doing honour to the gods for the enrichment of the earth. On the second Thursday before Christmas - Picrons-day - some Cornish miners feast in honour of St. Piran or St. Kinan, the supposed discoverer of tin, while others on the Thursday before Christmas observe the feast of Chewidden, in commemoration of the first manufacture of white or smelted tin.
Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser. 12th December 1906.
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