Our Easter traditions on my Scottish isle........

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It is nearly that time of the year again where we celebrate our traditional Easter festival of 'Peat man'. I live in a remote Scottish island where we still practice the old ways. This Easter Sunday we will once again select one of our criminals for the 'Peat man' initiation. This year it will be Murdo McMurdoch who has been selected as he has been incarcerated for 10 months for neglecting to attend Sunday church services twice in a row. During the festival Murdo will be stripped naked and paraded through the town, up through the hills and glens and lowered into a peatbog up to his neck. Then he will be taken out and covered in chicken feathers, given a bow and 2 arrows and released into the wilds to live out the rest of his days in the hills with only grouse for company. Then we will settle down with sandwiches and honey and do bible readings and guess the witch among us. Does anyone else still practice such quaint, funny rituals?