The Pasche Egg
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: The Pasche Egg
Classmark: LAVC/SRP/2/165
Creator(s): Calvert, Valerie E
Site Location(s): Subject - Burscough, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.5964, -2.83972 ); Subject - Workington, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.6425, -3.54413 ); Subject - Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7628, -2.70452 ); Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Midgley, Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7333, -1.96006 ); Subject - Near Sawrey, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.3532, -2.97271 ); Subject - Poland, Europe( 52, 20 ); Subject - Romania, Europe( 46, 25 ); Subject - Bulgaria, Europe( 42.666, 25.25 ); Subject - Norway, Europe( 62, 10 ); Subject - Portugal, Europe( 39.5, -8 )
Date(s): 1962
Size and medium: 98 unbound typed leaves; 14 b/w photographs.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410201
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
A study of the Easter egg and customs associated with it, based on questionnaire responses and fieldwork interviews with informants living in (or one time resident in) Burscough, Workington, Preston, York and Midgley.
The first chapter discusses the Easter-Egg song sung by the Burscough Pace-Eggers in the early part of the twentieth century. The texts of two versions (adult and children's) are presented, with photographs of the Pace-Eggers in costume (undated). Undated photographs of the clogs worn for pace-egging are also included in this chapter. Chapter Two concerns the pasche eggs rolled and decorated in Workington, with undated photographs of methods of egg decoration. This chapter also includes the text of a pasche-egg play performed at Easter time in Far Sawrey and Near Sawrey , Cumbria. Chapter Three describes the custom of egg rolling in Preston, with undated photographs of the event in the local Avenham Park. Chapter Four describes egg rolling and decorating in York, with an undated photograph of the event in the local Huntington Park. Chapter Five describes the Midgley Pace Egg Play, and includes the transcribed text of a version in circulation in 1840, and a more recent version (undated, but
possibly 1931/1932). A concluding chapter contains two overview sections on egg customs and Easter plays (the latter including undated tune transcriptions for the Burscough and Midgley Pace Eggers' songs).
Appendices present information on Easter egg customs in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Norway and Portugal.
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