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Following on from the recent Scare Witch Trials, all three UK Dungeons will be presenting "Cromwell's Bloody Banned Christmas". For more details, check out the following press release:
 The Dungeons kiss goodbye to Christmas in London, York and Edinburgh this December as the frighteningly fun attractions present: Christmas Cromwell-ed!
The Dungeons will transport those who dare back to the year 1647 when in a fit of fanatical Puritanism, Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas. Surrounded by burnt Christmas trees, smashed decorations, robins on spears and severed heads choking on their last mince pies, Oliver Cromwell’s henchman waits to greet those brave enough to venture inside.
Woe betide those with a Merry Christmas on their lips or Mince pies on their breath, these have been condemned by Oliver Cromwell as illegal demons of Catholic decadence, and his henchman does not take kindly to law breakers. Those who have committed festive felonies will suffer grave punishments. Mince pies have remained illegal to this very day.
Dungeon visitors will venture through the Dungeon’s crazed room 101 of all things festive gone horribly wrong, and must prepare to defend themselves in the Dungeon’s anti -Christmas courtroom. The puritan Judge Mental will be making visitors quake in their Christmas stockings as he singles them out for their crazed Christmas crimes, so beware all those who have been quaffing sherry, wrapping presents or toasting a turkey!
Should visitors survive the petrifying punishments laid out by Judge Mental, there’s a whole Dungeon of blood, gore, and more to explore. From Jack the Ripper’s stomping ground in London to terrors in the torture chamber, the pestilence of the plague, Sawney Bean’s cannibal cave lair in Edinburgh and the Bloody Vikings in York, there’s centuries of history’s horrible bits to discover.
Crazy Christmas facts:
• It is still illegal to eat mince pies in Britain today after they were condemned as illegal by Oliver Cromwell in 1647. Offender’s caught stuffing mince pies at Christmas in the 1600s under Cromwell’s law could be arrested and fined 5 shillings.
• Cromwell didn’t just condemn mince pies, any thing to do with Christmas – decorations such as Holly, singing, carolling, drinking to excess and generally having a good time were all outlawed.
Even Christmas services held in church were broken up by Cromwell’s armed soldiers.
• It is an offence under a law passed by Elizabeth 1st in 1588 to eat any other bird but Goose on Christmas Day – so watch out all those having Turkey!
More Information
Scare With Trials 2009 Review (London)
Scare With Trials 2009 Review (York)
Edinburgh Dungeons Review
York Dungeon Attraction page
London Dungeon Attraction page
Edinburgh Dungeon Attraction page
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