A scene from last year's Oddfellows parade in Newburgh
A bizarre Hogmanay tradition will see the streets of Newburgh filled with people in costume reminiscent of The Wicker Man movie.
The annual torchlit procession of the Newburgh Caledonian Lodge of Oddfellows can trace its history back almost two centuries.
Star of the show is the newest member of the secret society, known as the apprentice.
Dressed in white robes, the young man, whose identity is kept secret until the New Year’s Eve event, rides a Clydesdale horse bareback and facing backwards.
He is flanked by other members walking the High Street in historical costume, robes and masks and bearing staffs and torches.
In 1827 the lodge was formed as a friendly society by visitors from Dundee who came up the River Tay on the paddle steamer for holiday.
Having been held every year since 1855 outside wartime and barring a spell in the 1940s and 1950s, the spectacle is the only surviving Oddfellows parade in Scotland.
The parade starts at The Steeple at 7pm and works its way along the High Street, with a few drams taken along the way.
