Chewidden Thursday (also known as White Thursday, Chewidden Day or Jew-whidn) was a festival celebrated by the tin miners of West

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on the last clear Thursday before (i.e. at least one week before)

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. The festival celebrated the discovery of 'white tin' or smelted tin by St Chiwidden, a little-known Cornish saint who in legend was an associate of

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. Robert Hunt in ''Popular Romances of the West of England'' states:

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