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Revision as of 08:17, 3 February 2008
Punkie Night is an English custom practiced on the last Thursday of October, in Somerset in England. Children will march around with a jack o'lantern, singing a song which goes :
It's Punkie Night tonight It's Punkie Night tonight Adam and Eve would not believe It's Punkie Night tonight
No one knows how the custom ori
This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits.
The next time you vandalize Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. ginated, although it is almost certainly linked with Hallowe'en. As Morrell (1977) explains, the word "Punkie" is an old English name for a lantern, and jack o'lanterns for Punkie Night may be made of swedes or mangelwurzels rather thank pumpkins. Morrell explains how, in earlier times, farmers would put a traditional "Punkie" on their gates to ward off evil spirits at this time of year.
References
Morrell, P. (1977). Festivals and Customs. London: Pan ISBN: 0330252151
External links
http://www.england-in-particular.info/gazetteer/gz-somer.html
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0015-587X(197223)83%3A3%3C240%3AP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N