In Cambridgeshire the old word pasch, meaning Easter, was still given to a flower that bloomed about Easter on the Gog Magog Hills and round about. Hone noted it in his account of the names of Easter, which he traced through pasch and paschal to the Greek pascha and the Hebrew word for the Passover.
The pasch flower on the Gog Magog Hills
Printed under Easter Sunday · Gog Magog Hills, Cambridgeshire
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In Cambridgeshire the word pasch is still in use, and applied to a flower which appears at this time on the Gogmagog hills and its environs
From Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. 1, cols. 415-416. Read the original
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