The evening light is thinning at Lanark Cross and there is a hush. Then the wee bell in St Nicholas’s church tower, which has lain silent since last autumn, starts up its six o’clock chimes. The waiting crowd of children explodes into movement and noise. About a hundred youngsters, helped by grownups, then make three laps clockwise around the church, swinging homemade balls of paper on string above their heads as they run. This is Whuppity Scoorie, a rite of spring that takes place every year in the historic market town of Lanark. Its precise origins are lost to time
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