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General Category => Fun Stuff => Topic started by: Alsatian on January 14, 2019, 02:50:40 PM

Title: Interesting fact #5
Post by: Alsatian on January 14, 2019, 02:50:40 PM
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky.

The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days.

Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.

They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.

Hence the custom of ''Holding a Wake''.