Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 1Bell and Daldy, 1873 |
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... Eggs Easter Holidays Lifting on Easter Holidays . 212 . 234 247 253 . 258 . 262 . 263 . 266 . ib . · 108 The Hobby - horse . . 267 110 Low Sunday . 271 118 St. Urban's Day . 272 131 Royal Oak Day 273 Whitsun Ale . 276 142 • The Boy's ...
... Eggs Easter Holidays Lifting on Easter Holidays . 212 . 234 247 253 . 258 . 262 . 263 . 266 . ib . · 108 The Hobby - horse . . 267 110 Low Sunday . 271 118 St. Urban's Day . 272 131 Royal Oak Day 273 Whitsun Ale . 276 142 • The Boy's ...
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... eggs . Hist . de la Fête Dieu , p . 100. " To beare their candels soberly , and to offer them to the saintes , not of God's makynge , but the carvers and paynters , " is men- tioned among the Roman Catholic customs censured by John Bale ...
... eggs . Hist . de la Fête Dieu , p . 100. " To beare their candels soberly , and to offer them to the saintes , not of God's makynge , but the carvers and paynters , " is men- tioned among the Roman Catholic customs censured by John Bale ...
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... eggs . Hist . de la Fête Dieu , p . 100. " To beare their candels soberly , and to offer them to the saintes , not of God's makynge , but the carvers and paynters , " is men- tioned among the Roman Catholic customs censured by John Bale ...
... eggs . Hist . de la Fête Dieu , p . 100. " To beare their candels soberly , and to offer them to the saintes , not of God's makynge , but the carvers and paynters , " is men- tioned among the Roman Catholic customs censured by John Bale ...
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... egg hard , and took out the yolk , and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed , eat it shell and all , without speaking or drink- ing after it . We also wrote our lovers ' names upon bits of paper , and rolled them up in clay ...
... egg hard , and took out the yolk , and filled it with salt ; and when I went to bed , eat it shell and all , without speaking or drink- ing after it . We also wrote our lovers ' names upon bits of paper , and rolled them up in clay ...
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... Eggs and collops compose a usual dish at dinner on this day , as pancakes do on the following , from which customs they have plainly derived their names . It should seem that on Collop Monday they took their leave of flesh in the papal ...
... Eggs and collops compose a usual dish at dinner on this day , as pancakes do on the following , from which customs they have plainly derived their names . It should seem that on Collop Monday they took their leave of flesh in the papal ...
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