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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... light - haired male , be the first to enter a house on the morning of New Year's Day , it is supposed to bring bad luck for the whole of the year then commencing . Various precautions are taken to prevent this misfortune : hence many ...
... light - haired male , be the first to enter a house on the morning of New Year's Day , it is supposed to bring bad luck for the whole of the year then commencing . Various precautions are taken to prevent this misfortune : hence many ...
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... light on the morning of New Year's Day , as most unlucky to the one who gives it away . - Harland and Wilkinson's Lancashire Folk- Lore , 1867 , p . 214 . ISLE OF MAN . On this day an old custom , says Train in his History of the Isle ...
... light on the morning of New Year's Day , as most unlucky to the one who gives it away . - Harland and Wilkinson's Lancashire Folk- Lore , 1867 , p . 214 . ISLE OF MAN . On this day an old custom , says Train in his History of the Isle ...
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... light one not so lucky ; but alas ! if a woman , the worst luck will befall the household . Similar to the first hearing of the cuckoo , it is of the greatest importance whether or not you have money in your pocket and your cupboard ...
... light one not so lucky ; but alas ! if a woman , the worst luck will befall the household . Similar to the first hearing of the cuckoo , it is of the greatest importance whether or not you have money in your pocket and your cupboard ...
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... lights . ' The custom was this . An obligation lay upon the lord of the adjacent manor of Essington , every New Year's Day , to bring a goose to Hilton , and drive it three times round the hall - fire , which Jack of Hilton was all the ...
... lights . ' The custom was this . An obligation lay upon the lord of the adjacent manor of Essington , every New Year's Day , to bring a goose to Hilton , and drive it three times round the hall - fire , which Jack of Hilton was all the ...
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... light a candle at their fires . If they do , it is believed that one of the family will die within the year . - Gent . Mag . 1811 , vol . lxxxi . p . 424 . Subjoined is all that appears to have survived of the York- shire Hagmena song ...
... light a candle at their fires . If they do , it is believed that one of the family will die within the year . - Gent . Mag . 1811 , vol . lxxxi . p . 424 . Subjoined is all that appears to have survived of the York- shire Hagmena song ...
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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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