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Article: TIME TUNNEL: Kissing the curate made girls' Easter; A JOURNEY INTO OUR RICH HERITAGE...WITH A CUSTOM WHERE THE MEN PLAYED HARD TO GET.(Features)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- April 10, 2004
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Byline: David McGrory
THIS week historian DAVID McGRORY looks at the county's ancient Easter customs, many of which had pagan origins.
APART from chocolate eggs, modern Easter has little or no customs attached to it, unlike the festival celebrated by our ancestors - which included plenty of kissing!
Easter Monday and Tuesday were known as "Heaving" or "Lifting Day". On the Monday young men 'lifted' the girls, taking them in their arms like a baby and kissing them, while the older generation or higher classes followed the custom in a more sedate ...