Sept. 24.]

SCALDING THURSDAY.

In Laud’s diary occurs the following: “[1635] Sept. 24th, Scalding Thursday.”

This was probably a homely term for the day of preparation for that high-day Michaelmas, when the victim goose was scalded, plucked, and hung—a week’s hanging is the rule for a goose.—N. & Q. 3rd S., vol. iv. p. 441.