Welcome to Genuki, ENG, Lincolnshire
Data provided by Renee REDSHAW, Aust.
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Caistor is the home of the Gad whip, a fearsome object of
6 ft of stock and 7 ft of lash and was to be cracked by a
tenant of the manor in the porch every year during the 
reading of a Palm Sunday lesson.  The whip was next held
over the vicar's head, then laid to rest in the manorial pew.
The reason appears unknown but is presumed a penance 
for some ancient land dispute.  The ceremony was last 
performed in 1846 and the whip now rests in a glass case.
Next to the case is a stone, supposedly made of blood and
bones from the Holy Land.
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Added 26-December-2012