BurryMan

This is The BurryMan. He walks  around South Queensferry on the Friday of Ferry Fair week taking vast amounts of whisky from well wishers. 

Here is a description from Wikepedia
"On the Friday morning, a local man is covered from head to ankles in burrs (the sticky flowerheads or seedheads of two species of burdock, Arctium lappa and A. minus) that grow locally. The stickiness of his burry covering means that he has to walk awkwardly, with legs apart and arms held out sideways, but he is nevertheless paraded around a seven-mile route through South Queensferry for nine hours or more. He supports his aching arms on waist-high poles decorated with flowers. Two attendants (dressed in normal clothing[) guide him through the town and help him through his ordeal. The Burryman starts at the Staghead Hotel where is dressed in the burrs.The first stop is the former Provosts house at Villa Road then he parades round the town including visits to every public house, at each of which the Burryman is given a drink of whisky, but because of his sticky facial covering he can only drink through a straw. Local residents also give drinks of whisky so by the end of the day he is exhausted.
Tradition holds that he will bring good luck to the town if they give him whisky and money, and that bad luck will result if the custom is discontinued."

This years Ferry Fair was cancelled due to the covid situation however I didn't realise the BurryMan was still going to do a tour of SQF and as a consequence I didn't have a camera with me at work so was forced to use my phone for this image