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There’s a burnt down and abandoned manor about 10 minutes walk from me, now owned by the Freemasons, has a hermitage carved into the sandstone (or limestone idk) cliff face, as well as a tunnel leading from the local castle to the manor as a means of escape (something like 1.5 miles).
The hermatige is pretty small, about 10x10 foot in the main room, with a super high 15-20ft ceiling.
There’s another mystery cave carved into the cliff, which is about 30x15 foot with pillars supporting the ceiling carved out of the rock.
The manor has been used in one form or another basically continuously since the crusades, and then intermittently before then, earliest record is a Roman reference to a spring around the location, there is also a Saxon era water mill
Wait, so, essentially an actually living, human scarecrow?
Basically a security guard that functions via playing into superstitions as opposed to openly displaying armor and weapons?
I mean, you get a home and food and basically 0 commute along with this job, that’s waaaay fucking better than 99% of jobs I’ve heard of or seen.
Like what would the rough equivalent to modern norms be… the lord doesn’t pay you enough to maintain and upkeep both a hovel and a horse, but you are required to own a horse to even apply…?
Must have been easier in those days. I’ve had my listing up for a yard druid for 6 months now and little interest. Is minimum wage and garden hose access not enough anymore? Nah people just don’t want to work 😕
I remember hearing on No Such Thing As A Fish that one hermit was fired after their patron found them down at the local pub instead of living the solitary life they were being paid for
“Although not mandatory, we encourage the participants to dress up like druids”
God I wish that was me
I am now accepting offers to be some rich person’s hermit.
I offer you to become Musk’s hermit. Ask Trump for job details.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_hermit
For more info
Nice
The trend continued through the 1830s, when the idea became less popular as estate landscaping concepts evolved.
Would they get a bonus if they came with their own skull?
It was only after I realized this wasn’t referring to hermit crabs that this made sense.
