Bag oʹ Nails

Some hundreds of years ago there stood in the Tyburn Road, Oxford Street, a public-house called The Bacchanals: the sign was Pan and the Satyrs. The jolly god, with his cloven hoof and his horns, was called “The devil;” and the word Bacchanals soon got corrupted into “Bag oʹ Nails.” The Devil and the Bag oʹ Nails is a sign not uncommon even now in the midland counties.