According to Mr Bradley, caking was once practised around the rural fringes of north west Sheffield, in places like Dunworth, Stannington, Loxley, Oughtibridge, Worrall, Deepcar and Stocksbridge.<\/p>\n
A similar practice was also believed to have taken place in Cheshire, where “soul cakers” would dress up and go performing in pubs.<\/p>\n
Mr Bradley said: “Across cultures, this time of year is when a lot of people thought you were closest to your dead ancestors.<\/p>\n
“So, in Celtic pagan times there’s a festival, the Dio de las Mortes, the Day of the Dead – that’s the same time of year.<\/p>\n
“In this country before Christianity, we had pagan Celtic religions and there was a festival called Samhain which sort of mutated into Halloween.<\/p>\n
“People who practise paganism will have like a Samhain altar and they’ll put photos of their dead relatives on it. <\/p>\n
“It is a creepy time of year and it’s all about being frightened, shocked and horrified.”<\/p>\n
Speaking to BBC Radio Sheffield, Chris, from Hillsborough, who is in his 80s, said he remembered caking from his childhood.<\/p>\n
“I grew up in Deepcar and we used to do it and we sang that song,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I’ve heard people talking about lots of things to do on Halloween and I thought caking had just disappeared altogether and nobody remembered it at all.<\/p>\n
“Some people gave you a penny or a halfpenny – and some people would tell you to get lost.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Mr Bradley, caking was once practised around the rural fringes of north west Sheffield, in places…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,393,4884,1620,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-541831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-sheffield","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115473965751800779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}