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Shrove Tuesday: The Legend of Pancake Marion

Shrove Tuesday (aka Shrove Tuesday: The Legend Of Pancake Marion) is a short film, stylistically based on the fairytales created by the Brothers Grimm.


1801 in sports

Football at this time is still an essentially rural activity played mainly on public holidays and not so much by teams as by mobs, Shrove Tuesday being a traditional day for games across the country.

1821 in sports

Shrove Tuesday is a traditional day for games across the country.

Carnival of Madeira

The Carnival of Madeira (Carnaval in Portuguese) is an annual festival held forty days before Easter, that ends on Shrove Tuesday (called Fat Tuesday in Madeira - Terça-feira Gorda in Portuguese) the day before Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent).

Church of St Lawrence, Rode

It is an ancient custom that is traditionally held on Easter Monday or Shrove Tuesday in the United Kingdom.

Cruller

Crullers are traditionally eaten in Germany and some other European countries on Shrove Tuesday, to use up fat before Lent.

Street sports

In Ashbourne, Jedburgh and Workington for example a traditional contest of street football between two factions of the respective towns was originally played on Shrove Tuesday.


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