employees at the ARS ceramics workshop and #Hallivanamehed a #nickname given them, perhaps by the relatively cleaner #Kalev chocolate factory workers in the #Kohila plant on the other side of #Parnu mnt.
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#FolkEtymology #Rahvaetümoloogia
11/11

probably a hundred or so working in ceramics. the main #occupationalhazard of pottery are lung diseases such as #bronchitis, #asthma and #silicosis due to dust, and if there’s dust in the lungs there’s dust on the floor, on work surfaces, on pretty much everything, including clothes, faces,
9/11

‘why’. There is no curve in the road, other than the minor one created to build it. There’s essentially no mention of any #Hallivanamees before this date and, to be honest, it just feels wrong. Then came the “Aha moment” when I visited the street in question, home today to #ARS #Kunstilinnak,
7/11

to sing. So perhaps it was another scary name from #Estonian #folklore? You already have #Pakase, #Pikri, #Pikse, #Tuuslari, #Uku, #Vilisuu… The street was named on 1958-02-14 along with 80 or so others, quite a bunch, so maybe a #typo? But none of these three explanations passes the test of
6/11

beards and hair. I don’t know whether the plant had showers or not, but even if they did, recollecting my own early days as shot-blaster, I’m sure many would just go straight home and maybe get cleaned up later. And this is how the name may have come into being: the grey old men were probably
10/11

Premiering a new AudioSwarm at the Walls Have Ears festival this weekend seintelonkorvad.ee/eng/