Old Customs and Festivals

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Apr 1906

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Nature, Volume 73, Issue 1903, pp. 582-583 (1906).

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My mother, now in her eightieth year, was led by a recent article by Sir Norman Lockyer in NATURE to relate some reminiscences of some of the festivals formerly celebrated in Newton-on-Ayr. One of these seems to point to ancient human sacrifices. In her mother's school-days, the pupils of Newton-on-Ayr annually elected a king and a queen on Candlemas Day. On ``Pase Friday'' (Good Friday) the king and queen, decked with daffadowndillies, were led out to the Newton Moors, where they were solemnly interred in graves dug side by side in a sandy knowe. Hands were clasped through a hole bored in the sand between the graves.

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