Furze

Posted on 18 March 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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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    7 Responses to Furze

    1. Joan M says:
      18 March 2010 at 9:23 am

      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!!

    2. wanda says:
      18 March 2010 at 9:36 am

      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.

    3. doanli says:
      18 March 2010 at 11:23 am

      Bringing Burning at the Stake back in vogue!

    4. B.C.M. says:
      18 March 2010 at 11:36 am

      Re-activate the Order of Preachers. They’re facing pending worldwide deployment!

    5. edwardo3 says:
      18 March 2010 at 6:51 pm

      “What a day, what a day, for an Auto de fe”.

    6. Mark R says:
      18 March 2010 at 8:49 pm

      The passage doesn’t mention it, but it is a shrub. It is mentioned several times in Christina Rossetti’s “The Goblin Market”.

    7. deborah-anne says:
      19 March 2010 at 2:24 am

      I’ll take several gallons. I need some high octane Furze for some pro-abortion, feminazi, dissenting religious type heretics.