"In Cornwall, as we are informed by a contributor to Notes and Queries, the Yule log is called ' the mock,' and great festivities attend the burning of it, including the old ceremony of lighting the block with a brand preserved from the fire of last year. We are informed also that, in the same locality, Christmas Eve is a special holiday with children, who, on this occasion, are allowed to sit up till midnight and ' drink to the mock."
Chambers 1888
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