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Tuesday 9 February

Born on this day: Philip Donnellan (1924)

Folklore from the old calendars

Shrovetide in the old calendars 60 entriesThe Pancake Greaze, The Ba’ of Scone, Barring Out the Master, Threshing the Hen, Holly Boy and Ivy Girl, Lent Crocking, Ludlow Rope-pulling, The Pancake Bell, The First Pancake, Football Day at Kingston, The Cock-penny, The Hoddesdon Curfew and the Pancakes, Throwing at Cocks, Fitz-Stephen’s Shrovetide, The Wives’ Football at Inveresk, The Ring in the Crowdie, Sauty Bannocks and Dreaming Bannocks, Shrove Tuesday Weather, Ringing the Pancake Bell in York Minster, Cocks for the Poor Rate at Pinner, Stoning the doors in Scilly, The noon bell at Newcastle, Dough-nut Day at Baldock, The pan’s hot, The freshmen’s caudle at Merton, The football over Alnwick Castle wall, Great A, little A, this is pancake day, Flowers, flowers, high-do, Sown on Shrove Tuesday, The victor of the Shrovetide cock-fight, Crying to Bacchus at Eton, The Danes and the Shrove Tuesday cocks, Hobthrust and the Fassen’s-eve cock, Pancakes from the church leads at Sheffield, Whemmeled on the muck-midden, Crowdy and the ring in the Manx pancakes, Leek pasties at Earls Barton, Shrove Tuesday weddings at Kilrush, Shrove Tuesday football at Dorking, The Shrovetide ball and the bull-ring, The Bromfield silver bell and churchyard football, Shrovetide cockfights at Crosthwaite school, Threshing the fat hen in Essex and Suffolk, The King of Christmas at Norwich, Leaden cocks at Shrovetide, The owl in the Shrovetide pot at North Walsham, Six silver glaives for the Chester runners, Cock broth for Shrovetide husbands, The Pancake-Bell and the father’s knell, Cock-throwing given up at Newcastle, Fugies and cock-fight dues at Applecross, Hurdles on the windows at Teddington, The pancake on the crow at Eton, Shying at buried cocks at Manchester school, Going a-shroving near Salisbury, The apprentices’ Shrove Tuesday, The Whipping Toms of the Newarke, Guttling Tuesday, Knappan on the Berry Sands, Buttermilk and a buried pancake on Shrove Tuesday

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