On the morning of 15 September, the freemen of Huntingdon walked the borough boundary behind an ox skull carried on two poles. The skull was dragged along the boundary like a plough, the boundary holes were dug again, and a boy was thrown into a hole and struck with a spade. Hazlitt cited the Antiquary of 1892.
The ox skull at Huntingdon
15 September · Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire
No longer kept
The boundary-holes are dug afresh, and a boy thrown into the hole and struck with a spade.
From Hazlitt's Faiths and Folklore, vol. 1, p. 333. Read the original
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