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Annually on the day after Easter in Neston, Cheshire, a curious custom known as Riding the Lord was honored, perhaps for many centuries. Christina Hole's Traditions and Customs of Cheshire (1937) preserved the memory of this properly discarded medieval-sounding ritual: "A man was mounted on a donkey, and rode from the top of High Street to Chester Lane. The assembled people amused themselves by jeering at him and pelting him with rotten eggs and mud all along the route. He was given a sum of money for this unpleasant performance, and we can only hope that the pay was sufficient to make it worthwhile. No explanation seems to have been forthcoming for the singular rite, except the time-honoured one that it had always been done."
January 15, 2018