I lived in Greta Street in the Dingle (just off High Park Street) burning Judas was very common !, yet when we moved to Aigburth no one had heard of it.I was quite nice to have two occasions in a year when we would all gather around a bommy !
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I lived in Greta Street in the Dingle (just off High Park Street) burning Judas was very common !, yet when we moved to Aigburth no one had heard of it.I was quite nice to have two occasions in a year when we would all gather around a bommy !
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I'd never heard of it before until it was mentioned here on the forum some time ago. (I live in Anfield).
Take a look here squiggs.
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...=JUDAS+BURNING
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I've always tried to tell people about Judas burning in Liverpool but fellow scousers thought I was slightly insane!! I lived in High Park Street (between Greta Street and Ouse Street and all my brothers used to "play Judas" as they called it. They were often chased by the police in the early hours of Good Friday morning and would run into somebody's backyard and lock the door.On one occasion the lad whos backyard was chosen was a bit slow and was left hammering on the door. Happy days.
How nice to hear from someone else who remembers this event !, did you live by Monaghans the sweet/paper shop ?I probably passed your house lots of times, on my way home from St Silas, I lived next to the diary (by the entry) in Greta Street.
There is a book about customs of Britain and it is mentioned - only know to be done in Dingle particularly around the Holy Land, Moses Street, David Street etc..
I seem to remember that Judas was burned but never saw it. It seemed to be VERY early in the morning.
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There are two threads on this. They should be merged.
http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...hp?46610-Judas
They should. This seems to be happening a lot lately, threads on subjects we have recently discussed.
I would be interested in knowing the name of the book mentioned here. I have the little book called Liverpool Oddities but I would like to have the Britain one too
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Hi Ronijayne. I think the best book on the subject is The English Year, "a month-by-month guide to the nation's customs and festivals from May Day to Mischief Night" by Steve Roud. It has recently been published in paperback by Penguin Books in the UK. Steve Roud quotes from an article in the Folklore Society journal Folk-Lore for 1954 by Frank Turner for a very full account of the custom as it was practiced in the 1950's.
Hi Ged; I think any definitive statement about a folk practice or custom (including this one!) is liable to be proved wrong.
It was thought that the custom was confined to the Toxteth/Dingle area, but contributors to this forum have shown on this and other related threads that it turned up elsewhere. It was also thought to have died out by the 60's, but again contributors here have shown it was going on much more recently. Folk customs are pretty tough creatures; they can carry on undetected long after being declared extinct!
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Burning Judas from Dingle? I thought this was about Ringo Starr
Ha ha.
I think there has been way enough said about Ringo recently for it to be spreading to other threads. Leave him be. He did nothing wrong.
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