Derbyshire
On Easter Sunday the old custom of sugar-cupping at the dripping-torr, near Tideswell, is observed; when the young people assemble at the torr, each provided with a cup and a small quantity of sugar or honey, and having caught the required quantity of water, and mixed the sugar with it, drink it, repeating a doggerel verse.31—Jour. of the Arch. Assoc. 1852, vol. vii. p. 204.
Notes
31 It is also a general belief in this county that unless a person puts on some new article of dress he will be injured by the birds, and have no good fortune that year—Ibid. p. 205; see also p. 160.