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Bottle-kicking is an old Leicestershire custom that takes place in the village of Hallaton each Easter Monday.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=The Folklore Year - Easter )〕 Records of bottle-kicking date to the late 18th century, but the custom is thought to originate much earlier, from before the Christian era.〔 ==Origin and history== Local lore claims that the custom began when two ladies of Hallaton were saved from a raging bull by a startled hare, distracting the bull from its charge. They showed their gratitude to God for sending the hare by donating money to the church on the understanding that every Easter Monday, the vicar would provide a hare pie, twelve penny loaves, and 2 barrels of beer for the poor of the village.The Hallaton villagers would fight each other for the food and drink, and on one occasion, the residents of the neighbouring village of Medbourne joined the fray and stole the beer. The Hallatonians cooperated to retrieve the spoils, thus beginning the village rivalry that continues to this day. Other explanations of the custom's origin include the idea that the tradition harks back to England's pagan past, when hares were sacrificed to the goddess Ēostre.〔 Bottle-kicking has been an annual tradition for over 200 years.〔 The tradition has been cancelled only once in that time, in 2001 because of concerns over foot-and-mouth disease.〔 〕 Legend has it that the rector of Hallaton, opposed to the tradition because of its pagan origins, tried to ban the event in 1790. However, he relented the next day, after the words "No pie, no parson" appeared scrawled on the wall of the vicarage overnight.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bottle-kicking」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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