Custom (lapsed)
Lating the Witches
A candle against witches.
See it clearly
- What's there
- Fell top at night
- Legend from
- Pendle/Longridge
- Tone
- Eerie
Keep your candle lit.
On Halloween night people in old Lancashire carried lighted candles across the fells between 11 and midnight. If the candle stayed alight, witches had no power over the bearer for the year. The custom died out; a turnip-lantern climb of Pendle began in the 1950s.