Thanks, Charley and Liz. I love to hear about the old customs in England. The farmyard names don't seem to have come over here. Except, of course, in Pantomimes. Must ask my New Zealand dairy-farmer neighbour. I have an American husband to fill me in on American ones. He was a Latin scholar once too so that's handy.

I've been looking at daisies and cows. The flowers decorating cows in India are often daisy-type ones. Of course daisies are common. Chaucer seems to have been the one who spread the "day's eye" idea. In some old cultures cows carried the sun on their horns.

What I'm aiming at is India+cow+daisy+gypsies+spread-to-England = Joy using Krishna in a Pantomime. My sense of tradition will only allow that if I can make a plausible connection. Cheers, Joy