Event details

Event name

Cock shies

Community

Winterslow

Date

Shrove Tuesday

Season

Spring

Notes

A cock was tied to a stake with a long string and sticks and stones were thrown at it, cauing terrible injury before the final death blow. The killer was awrded the bird. When used as a money raiser it was three throws a penny or some such figure.

Source

WSRO 3433 Folklore folder