Block:Tut Ball in East Yorkshire in 1848
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| Data | “Tut-ball” was named as a game played on Ash Wednesday in a local history book's description of the local customs observed on various holidays in the seaside town of Hornsea in East Yorkshire. “Of these are, the eating of 'eggs and callops' on Shrove Monday—pancakes on Tuesday—and on Wednesday, a curious custom of playing at 'Tut-ball' (elsewhere called hand-ball or stool-ball). At present, this is only practised by children, but, within the memory of persons yet living, old as well as young turned out in the closes or on the Common for this play, and it was a saying that they who did not play at Tut-ball on Ash-Wednesday would be sick in harvest time.” |
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| Sources | An Account of Hornsea in Holderness in the East-Riding of Yorkshire, Hull, 1848, William Stephenson, p. 90 |
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