Chalked halltraps

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  • enos chalked halltraps: ECH → HCE (backwards)
  • chalked: (slang) slashed, scratched → Enos the magician chalking circles in the ground to conjure spirits
  • chalked: drew with chalk → chalk drawings in palaeolithic caves are some of the earliest examples of art → Kevin (= Shaun) "chalked oghres on walls" at FW 027.05-06
  • choked ?
  • talked: in the time of the Biblical Enos men first invoked the name of God (Genesis 4:26)
  • hall trappings: pictures on the wall in the hallway → Vico's First Age, when primitive men made their homes in caves (and chalked images on the walls?)
  • hallow-traps: an old meaning of hallows is the gods of the heathens → Enos's chalk circles trap the spirits of false gods
  • hilltops
  • Hell-traps: to trap and compel demons from Hell
  • Hallstatt: a Celtic Iron Age culture
  • traps: anticipates the traps HCE uses to capture earwigs