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We actually don't know. Its origins are lost in time - but it is quite old. You can find it in use at least as early as 1380 in the the text Controversial Tracts by John Wyclif (who is particularly famous for the "Wyclif Bible" - a translation of The Bible into common English published a few years after the aforementioned 1380 text)
Speculations (and that's all they are - speculations) include:
- Hooke Head and the nearby village of Crooke in Ireland
- Hooke Head and Crookehaven in Ireland - during the early years of the Normans ships that failed to make landfall between those two locations were frequently lost to the open Atlantic due to the weather - or at the very least had a rough voyage and might be forced to make land in an area with very unfriendly Irish natives.
- An obscure customs regulating allowing limiting local people to only take as firewood from common land any branches that they could reach with a billhook (a traditional cutting tool used in agriculture and forestry) or a shepherd's crook.
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