Show aall bool bay of bending one ou a boot icae wand or otherwise april fooling him on tho day of april is very an chent yet it cannot truthfully said that any ono fa equal to the task of tracing it to its origin somo profess to believe it a survival of ho travesty of bending the saviour hither and thither first from annas to caiaphas and pilate and herod this opinion is strengthened by tho fact eliat during the middle agee that very scene in christs life was made tho subject of one of the easter miracle plays edlan tho chief streets of london and u english cities fit tho first class though the above opinion has ro aano tiou of brands moora and it is not at nil unlikely that it fit really u relic of some old heathen festival feet ival buchas abo hull festival of the latho bomal feast of fool the 1 custom ite origin of playing tricks and of all kind on the first day of thie month ie universal throughout europe and is also practiced in many other and wider various it ie a curious fact that the hindmo hull festival whore april fool tricks of all sorte are played ie held ou the night of the 3 let of march and the orgies are not discontinued until on the morning of april 1 st louie |