Tom Bawcock's Eve

December 23, Monday

England

Tom Bawcock's Eve is an annual festival, held on 23 December, in Mousehole, Cornwall.

The festival is held in celebration and memorial of the efforts of legendary Mousehole resident Tom Bawcock to lift a famine from the village by going out to fish in a severe storm. During this festival Stargazy pie (a mixed fish, egg and potato pie with protruding fish heads) is eaten and depending on the year of celebration a lantern procession takes place.

Tom Bawcock's Eve