found: Work cat.: Bird, C. Punkie Night : a custom of Hinton St George, 2007:p. 18 (Other villages in the area, including Chiselborough itself, also have Punkie Night celebrations. Punkie Night may well be connected with the ancient Celtic festival of Samain when the death of the old year was commemorated and bonfires lit to regenerate the earth which occurred at the end of October and became All Hallows Eve (or Halloween).
found: Wikipedia WWW site, Jan. 11, 2008(Punkie Night is an English custom practiced on the last Thursday of October, in Somerset in England. No one knows how the custom originated, although it is almost certainly linked with Halloween.)
found: Everything2 WWW site, Jan. 11, 2008(Punkie Night is a festival celebrated in many villages in rural England, but is chiefly associated with Hinton St George in the county of Somerset. It takes place on the last Thursday of October, and has close links with the festival of Halloween.)
