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British Popular Customs

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

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Derbyshire

Formerly, at the village of Findern, the boys and girls used to go every year in the evening of All Souls’ Day to the adjoining common, and light up a number of small fires among the furze growing there, which they called Tindles.—Gent. Mag. 1784, vol. iv. p. 836.

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