Derbyshire
During a visit to the little village of Castleton, says a correspondent of N. & Q. (4th S. vol. v. p. 595), I noticed every child without exception had a bottle of elecampane—the younger ones having one tied round their necks—all sucking away at this curious compound of Spanish juice, sugar, and water with great assiduity. I was informed by a very old man that the custom had always obtained at Castleton on this day as long as he could remember.
The custom of lifting was practised in some of the northern parts of this county.—Jour. of Arch. Assoc., 1852, vol. vii. p. 205.