Dorsetshire.
During the last century it was customary in this county, on Easter Eve, for the boys to form a procession bearing rough torches, and a small black flag, chanting the following lines:
“We fasted in the light,
For this is the night.”
This custom was no doubt a relic of the Popish ceremony formerly in vogue at this season.—Brand, Pop. Antiq., 1849, vol. i. p. 160.