Flags for Intentions
Several years ago, my feed over on Instagram delivered a wonderful post featuring a continuing saga of the artist's adventures ... In her post, Hannah wrote about a taking much anticipated camping trip, which turned into a sodden disaster! She wrote that they hung their 'cloutie flags' upon setting up their campsite in Cornwall. Clootie flags on my porch I guessed she meant small cloth prayer flags or banners, and found this article when I looked it up: The Scots word ‘clootie’ means ‘cloth’ - the term can also be found in use in the Scottish dessert, the ‘ clootie dumpling ’. (A Scotts pudding , with dried fruit - currents, raisins and the like) which is boiled in a cloth (the clootie). Clootie flags are scraps of cloth, hung from trees surrounding a sacred well or spring. These sources of fresh water have been considered places of healing for millennia, and the flags hold prayers for healing. Tra...