So where was that dratted egg anyway?
The Legal Genealogist had a lot of fun with yesterday’s virtual egg hunt at St. Mary the Virgin Church, in Freeland, Oxfordshire, England — and, from the comments, readers did, too!
First, the background to yesterday’s post.1
The lovely 360-degree photographs that were turned into the virtual location for the Easter egg hunt were taken, and the presentation created, by Nikhilesh Haval, who — according to the Oxfordshire Family History Society — “has photographed in 360 degrees many Oxfordshire and London churches.”2
The link appeared on Facebook, posted by that society. A genealogist friend, Jan Brandt, picked it up and posted it; an Australian genealogist friend, Pauleen Cass, saw it and reposted it; and I took it and ran with it from there.
But… even this morning, there are still some folks who haven’t found all the eggs. In particular, there are folks who haven’t found the dragon and some who’ve found the dragon but not the egg.
So… as promised, the answer.
Remember the clue for this one. It read: “Dragon in a circle is about to eat.”3
To begin with, then, we need a circle. And this church had, what, a gazillion circles. I don’t know about you, but I looked in every circle, even the floor decorations and the graphics on books and posters.
And, for me, part of the problem here was that the dragon is in a circle within a circle.
You need to be in the crossing and then look to the left, in the windows just above and to the left of the pulpit:
That top window is a circle. But within that circle are six more circles. Down at the verrrrrrry bottom of that circle, in the very center small circle, is a dragon.
But where’s the egg?????
Again remember the clue. “Dragon in a circle is about to eat.”
So look just to the left of the dragon’s snout, just where he (or she!) could possibly be getting ready to bite.
Yup. There’s the egg.
You’re welcome.
And all of our thanks to Nikhilesh Haval and whoever may have been involved in thinking this up in the first place…
Cite/link to this post: Judy G. Russell, “Of dragons and eggs…,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 13 Apr 2020).
SOURCES
- See Judy G. Russell, “Easter in interesting times,” The Legal Genealogist, posted 12 Apr 2020 (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : accessed 13 Apr 2020). ↩
- Facebook status update, Oxfordshire Family History Society, posted 11 Apr 2020. ↩
- Virtual Easter Egg Hunt (https://www.nikreations.co.uk/indie360/egghunt/ : accessed 12 Apr 2020). ↩
I found the dragon rather easy to find . . . after all, who slew the dragon but St. George, and whose are the two crosses on the flag of Great Britain but St. George and St. Andrew. Knowing that St. Andrew is the white “X” on the flag makes George’s the vertical cross – only had to look for a red cross.
On the other hand, the “where the baptismal water is kept” was a pain – I looked at that location at least a dozen times without seeing it. Only when I zoomed in did it show up.
The dragon was the last one for me to find as well. I was looking in the back of the church, at the children’s artwork on the bulletin board. Then I got to thinking and remembered my dad, named George, used the CB handle “Dragonslayer” because St. George was a dragonslayer (same conclusion as Wallace). Then I went back to the stained glass windows that were depicting the saints (I looked in them a bunch of times) until I saw the dragon. Then I did the “bob and weave” with the computer screen until I was at the right angle to see that egg. 🙂
What a wonderful game. Not only was it fun, but it makes you take in each and every aspect, nook, and cranny of the St. Mary Freeland’s church. So many beautiful stained glass windows and statues and pictures on the walls. A beautiful game. I hope they keep this Easter Egg tradition going, it’s a great one!
I enjoyed it! I did have trouble finding the dragon egg. I somehow missed that window when I went through the church.
I hope they do it again next year.
Wallace, please tell me and my friend where the baptismal water is! We each have scanned and zoomed and zoomed and zoomed without luck!