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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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SEMPLE, W. Old Customs and Festivals. Nature 73, 582–583 (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/073582c0
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