I have been watching science stuff on youtube, and I have learned that gravity don’t pull nothing. Gravity is NOT a force. It is the warping of space that causes all the orbiting stuff, and I learned that in a bucket of water, gravity comes from everywhere unless it is falling in a vacuum. I did not know they had vacuums in Galileo’s day. I thought they used brooms??? That you had to lay the bent to, if it is a bonnie broom - whatever a bent is - maybe something to do with gravity??? It is supposed to bend stuff.
... to lay the bent to the bonnie broom.....
BENT is a type of reedy grass found in North America and Asia
Bonnie means ‘pretty’ in Scottish
BROOM is a type of stiff, reedy grass that is used to make brooms.
MEANING:
” That is to fashion a cross inside the croft with one stick of bent and another stick of broom. These two reeds had great spiritual power to the pagans. After the Christians had their way, the pagan ways were subverted to Christian uses. The cross of bent and broom would keep the devil out of the house. “
**** croft is a small field or pasture near the house or the farm itself if small or tenanted...