Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions, Volume 1Bell & Daldy, 1873 |
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... Holy Church , fabricating with her own hands , had imposed on her ancient devotees . ' Yet the forgers of these shackles had artfully enough contrived to make them sit easy , by twisting flowers around them : dark as this picture ...
... Holy Church , fabricating with her own hands , had imposed on her ancient devotees . ' Yet the forgers of these shackles had artfully enough contrived to make them sit easy , by twisting flowers around them : dark as this picture ...
Page xix
... Holy Thursday ib . . 197 39 May - day Customs 212 43 Maypoles 234 St. Blaze's Day 51 MORRIS - DANCERS . 247 Valentine's Day Collop or Shrove Monday Shrovetide , or Shrove Tuesday . Throwing at Cocks 53 Maid Marian . 253 62 Robin Hood ...
... Holy Thursday ib . . 197 39 May - day Customs 212 43 Maypoles 234 St. Blaze's Day 51 MORRIS - DANCERS . 247 Valentine's Day Collop or Shrove Monday Shrovetide , or Shrove Tuesday . Throwing at Cocks 53 Maid Marian . 253 62 Robin Hood ...
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... Holy Angels Michaelmas Goose St. Michael's Cake or Bannock St. Faith , Virgin and Martyr St. Ethelburgh's Day St. Luke's Day . 374 ib . • · 373 St. Simon and St. Jude's Day . 375 Allhallow Even The Fifth of November Martinmas Christmas ...
... Holy Angels Michaelmas Goose St. Michael's Cake or Bannock St. Faith , Virgin and Martyr St. Ethelburgh's Day St. Luke's Day . 374 ib . • · 373 St. Simon and St. Jude's Day . 375 Allhallow Even The Fifth of November Martinmas Christmas ...
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... holy , and from sending abroad New Yeare's Gifts upon it ( a custome now too frequent ) , it being a meere relique of paganisme and idolatry , derived from the heathen Romans ' feast of two - faced Janus , and a practise so execrable ...
... holy , and from sending abroad New Yeare's Gifts upon it ( a custome now too frequent ) , it being a meere relique of paganisme and idolatry , derived from the heathen Romans ' feast of two - faced Janus , and a practise so execrable ...
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... holy fleeces twaine , Wherof , being sponne and drest , are made the pals of passing gaine . " A passage not unsimilar occurs in The Present State of the Manners , & c . of France and Italy - in Poetical Epistles to Robert Jephson , Esq ...
... holy fleeces twaine , Wherof , being sponne and drest , are made the pals of passing gaine . " A passage not unsimilar occurs in The Present State of the Manners , & c . of France and Italy - in Poetical Epistles to Robert Jephson , Esq ...
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