Dingin Doon the Doo

Overview and Issue

• The Papingo Shoot lives on in Ayeshire.

• Article on
• WG060

Abstract

• "The battered contents of a biscuit box, a wooden replica of a pigeon - is ceremoniously shot at on the first Saturday in June by the archers of Kilwinning in Ayrshire. The ancient custom of the Papingo Shoot still takes place years after Richard Crawford was hit at the Stirling shoot in Game of Kings. Its roots go back five centuries when the Ancient Society of Kilwinning Archers was created and shot at a Papingo - the Scots word for a popinjay or parrot - a feathered figure of a bird hoisted some 120 feet from the ground on top of the Kilwipning Abbey tower. Each archer shot a blunt arrow at the target, and the first to 'ding doon the doo: became Captain of Archers."

• It is pleasing to see that public acknowledgement of Dorothy Dunnett in the final quotation: Tom Erskine speaking at the Wapinshaw!

Author

• The article article is about the Kilwinning Papingo and appeared in The Scots Magazine. Ange1a Gilchrist sent the article to Whispering Gallery.

Dunnett Book Citations

• GOK 1.7

Historical People

• Walter Scott

Fictional Characters

• Tom Erskine

Locations

• Kilwinning

Bibliography

• (None)

Literature

• 'Old Mortality' by Walter Scott.

Illustrations

• B&W Papingo ©illustration by Peter McC1ure

Historical Events

• The annual Papingo Shoot (Wapinshaw) was first mentioned by Walter Scott in Old Mortality and is at least 500 years old.

Other References

• (None)

Quotes from Dunnett

• (None)

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