Nickanan Night, also known as Roguery Night or Peasen Monday, is a revered #Cornish tradition held on the Monday before #ShroveTuesday. Initially centered on pea splitting, it has evolved into a festivity marked by youthful mischief.
As twilight falls, youths armed with short clubs engage in door-knocking escapades, seeking pancakes from households. Mysterious disappearances of household items add intrigue, with items reappearing the next day as tokens of revelry. In locales like Polperro, festivities culminate in the procession of 'Jack-o-Lent', symbolizing Judas Iscariot. It was paraded through the streets and pelted with rotten vegetables. It was then taken to the beach where it was ceremonially burned — which also recall #Celts and #Imbolc festival.
It's #ShroveTuesday and so you may wish to enjoy these very timely very surreal very psychedelic very WTF ads for International House of Pancakes, real non-fake ads, written and produced by the #FiresignTheatre in 1969. Hit tracks 27, 28, 29, and 30.
In some of Shropshire's older parishes, it was customary for the 'Pancake bell' to be rung on the morning of Shrove Tuesday. Traditionally, it rang to remind folk to go to confession before fasting. But, by the 19th century, it was the cue to prepare the pancake batter!