Calomnequiller's Pravities

• Colmcille’s Prophecies: "the famous Book of Kells, or as it is often called the Book of Colum Cille". Saint Columcille (or Columba), the 6th-century Irish abbot and missionary, to which numerous spurious prophecies have been attributed.

• Column-filler: a journalist, who fills the columns of a newspaper.

• quiller: a professional writer, who works with a quill.

• calamus: the quill of a bird's feather

• calamus: (Latin) reed; reeds and quills were once used as writing implements

• calumniator: one who calumniates, or slanders, another person. For example, a dishonest journalist.

• depravities: Yellow journalism. Also, the pages of French novels (French leaves) were widely suspected of being full of depravities.