The Westhoughton festival of ' Kaewyed ' (or ' Cow's Head ')—a fair, with much pasty-eating-commemorates a local legend that also crops up in the folk-lore of other parts of the country. A farmer's cow had stuck its head one day through a five-barred gate, and could not get it out again. Presently the farmer, attracted by the cow's forlorn mooings, arrived on the scene. He tried one way and he tried another, but failed to free the cow. At last, after many hours, he found a solution ; he fetched his axe and--cut the cow's head off.