A timely and light-hearted offering from the Laudator:
Oliver Rackham, The History of the Countryside (1986; rpt. London: Phoenix Press, 2000), p. 295:
Furze is an important and widely-used fuel; it produces a quick hot blaze suitable for heating ovens, getting up a fire in the morning, or burning heretics.
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Also known as gorse or whin. It is very spiny – probably useful in producing a hot blaze for heretics – if the heat doesn’t get them, the thorns will!!
Nice, I had no idea! Is there a stockpile building up? We’re gonna need it.
Seriously, I’m praying for the salvation of souls and the conversion of sinners. Myself included.
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The passage doesn’t mention it, but it is a shrub. It is mentioned several times in Christina Rossetti’s “The Goblin Market”.
I’ll take several gallons. I need some high octane Furze for some pro-abortion, feminazi, dissenting religious type heretics.