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In olden times the village folk observed a quaint old custom each year on 22nd September.
A procession went round the village, the leader carrying a white rabbit decorated with a scarlet ribbon in honour of St Agatha.
All the young unmarried women who chanced to meet the procession extended the first two fingers on the left hand and pointing to the rabbit recited
‘Gustin, Gustin (St Augustine) lacks a bier,
maidens, maidens bury him here’.
They were then supposed to receive a mental picture of their future husband. This was a ceremony said to date back to time of the first Crusade.
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