...that should, of course, be Raw-heads... The quote, incidently, comes from a wee booklet entitled 'Christmas Entertainments 1740', which also includes the following:

"And so far for Enchantment, which some old Women first set on foot to amuse Children, and is now finished by the Author, with no other view but to assure his Readers, that Enchantment proceeds from nothing but the Chit-Chat of an old Nurse, or the Maggots in a Madman's Brain."

I say again, Joy to the World.