Riddley Walker Setting & Symbolism

Riddley Walker Objects/Places

Widders Bel/Whitstable

The digging site at which Riddley's father is killed.

Do It Over/Dover

Where Riddley and Lissener find a boat washed ashore containing a dead man. They find the sulphur needed to make gunpowder in the dead man's pocket.

Fork Stone/Folkestone

Where Goodparley is blinded and relieved of his power by Orfling. The Eusa Folk are also gather here for their symposium.

Cambry/Canterbury

The "senter" of Inland to which everyone, Riddley and the Eusa Folk in particular, find themselves drawn. Cambry is meant to be the place where the 45 Eusa Folk gather.

Eusa Folk

Forty-five inbred and deformed people spread throughout Inland. They gather in Cambry in order to "do some poasyum" (symposium), which consists of the entire group, stripped to the skin, roiling and squirming like a nest of snakes.

Greanvine

Within the Circle of Power, Riddley encounters a stone sculpture he calls "Greanvine" but it is clearly recognizable as the Greenman, a Celtic figure representing fertility and...
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