British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People: Arranged According to the Calendar of the YearG. Bell, 1900 - 520 pages |
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... villages and fields . Sometimes fifty or sixty of these fires may be seen all at once . This being finished , the company return home , where the good housewife and her maids are preparing a good supper . A large cake is always provided ...
... villages and fields . Sometimes fifty or sixty of these fires may be seen all at once . This being finished , the company return home , where the good housewife and her maids are preparing a good supper . A large cake is always provided ...
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... village to village about Twelfth Day , have their fool , their Maid Marian ( generally a man dressed in woman's clothes , and called " the fool's wife ) , " and sometimes the hobby - horse ; they are dressed up in ribbons and tinsel ...
... village to village about Twelfth Day , have their fool , their Maid Marian ( generally a man dressed in woman's clothes , and called " the fool's wife ) , " and sometimes the hobby - horse ; they are dressed up in ribbons and tinsel ...
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... villages who also take part in the proceedings ; and when the hood is thrown up by the chief of the boggons , or by the officials , it becomes the object of the villagers to get the hood to their own village , by throwing or kicking it ...
... villages who also take part in the proceedings ; and when the hood is thrown up by the chief of the boggons , or by the officials , it becomes the object of the villagers to get the hood to their own village , by throwing or kicking it ...
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... village of North Somerset , who told him that she was going to see the Christmas thorn in blossom . He accompanied her to an orchard , where he found a tree , propagated from the celebrated Glastonbury thorn , and gathered from it ...
... village of North Somerset , who told him that she was going to see the Christmas thorn in blossom . He accompanied her to an orchard , where he found a tree , propagated from the celebrated Glastonbury thorn , and gathered from it ...
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... village , out of the very surplus of which " they not only repaired their church , but kept their poor too ; which charges , " quoth Dr. Plot , " are not now , perhaps , so cheerfully borne . " -Plot's Nat . Hist . of Staffordshire ...
... village , out of the very surplus of which " they not only repaired their church , but kept their poor too ; which charges , " quoth Dr. Plot , " are not now , perhaps , so cheerfully borne . " -Plot's Nat . Hist . of Staffordshire ...
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ancient annual Antiq apples assemble attended Bartholomew Fair bells Book of Days boys Brand bread BUCKINGHAMSHIRE cake called Candlemas candles carried celebrated ceremony Christmas Day church colours Cornwall cross customary Customs and Charities dancing Day Book decorated DERBYSHIRE door dressed Easter Edited eggs England Evi Kalend fair feast festival fire first-foot flowers formerly Friday garland give head Henry Henry VIII HEREFORDSHIRE History honour horse inhabitants Ireland Isle John king ladies Lancashire London Lord maids manor May-day mayor maypole merry Monday morning neighbourhood night NORTHAMPTONSHIRE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE o'clock observed occasion Old English Customs origin OXFORDSHIRE Palm Sunday pancakes parish party person play plough Plough Monday pole poor procession Queen reign ribbons round saint says Scotland Shrove Tuesday singing song sport STAFFORDSHIRE Stephen's Day streets Sunday Tenby Thursday town Trans Translated Valentine village wassail Year's gifts YORKSHIRE young
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