British Popular Customs, Present and Past / Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People. Arranged According to the Calendar of the Year.

by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

About Glenarm, on the coast of County Antrim, the “wisp” is not used, but on this day the boys go about from house to house, and are regaled with bannocks of oaten bread, buttered; these bannocks are baked specially for the occasion, and are commonly small, thick, and round, and with a hole through the centre. Any person who enters a house on New Year’s Day must either eat or drink before leaving it.

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INDEX.

• Abbé de Liesse, [459]
• Abbot of Misrule, [459]
• Acres Fair, [388]
• Advent Bells, [431]
• Agatha (St.), [374]
• Agnes’ (St.) Day, [47]
• Agnes’ (St.) Eve, [46]
• Agnes’ (St.) Fast, [46]
• Alaf-mass, [347]
• Ale, the Whitsun, [278]
• Allan Day, [395]
• Alleluia, Funeral of the, [45]
• All Fools’ Day, [184]
• All Hallows’ Day, [397]
• All Hallow Mass, [55]
• All Saints’ Day, [404]
• All Souls’ Day, [409]
• All Souls’ Eve, [405]
• Andermess, [430]
• Andisop, [431]
• Andrew’s (St.), Day, [429]
• Andrew’s (St.), Under Shaft, [247]
• Androis Mess, [430]
• Andrys Day, [430]
• Anne’s (St.) Day, [346], [357]
• Annunciation, Festival of, [180]
• Apparition of St. Michael, [275]
• Apples, given away on New Year’s Day, [5]
• Apples, ducking for, on Halloween, [394]
• Apple-trees, wassailing of, [450]
• April Gouks, [187]
• Apprentices’ Feast, [355]
• Array, Court of, [287]
• Ascension Day, [210]
• Ash Wednesday, [84]
• Ashton faggot, [446]
• Ass-ridlin, [199]
• Assumption of the Virgin Mary, [357]
• Aughrim, battle of, [340]
• August, Gule of, [347]
• Auld Handsel Monday, [19]
• Avage or Avisage, [416]
• Bacchus, Verses written in honour of, [58]
• Bacon, gammon of, eaten at Easter, [162]
• Bairn bishop, [291]
• Baker’s Clem, [423]
• Balmoral Castle, Halloween at, [401]
• Bannich Bruader, [90]
• Bannich Junit, [89]
• Barchan’s (St.) Day, [437]
• Barnabas’ (St.) Day, [310]
• Barring out, [72]
• Bartholomew’s (St.) Day, [361]
• Barton Fair, [379]
• Bay, used as a decoration at Christmas, [458]
• Beans, kings created by, [20]
• Bear-baiting, [385]
• Beating the Bounds, [210]
• Beating the Cross, [213]
• Becket, Thomas-à-, [338]
• Becket’s Fair, [339]
• Bedfordshire, [151], [205], [290], [374], [439], [493]
• Bees, Superstition regarding, [451]
• Bells, [5], [62], [82], [87], [476], [496], [499], [500], [504]
• Beltein, [223], [269]
• Berkshire, [119], [152], [191], [194], [233], [346], [377], [439], [466]
• Bezant, festival at Shaftesbury, [207]
• Bible, opening of, on New Year’s Day, [5]
• Biddenham Cakes, [165]
• Binding Tuesday, [188]
• Birch, used as a decoration at Whitsuntide, [281]
• Black Cherry Fair, [357]
• Blaize’s (St.) Day, [60]
• Blasius (St.), [60]
• Blayse (St.) Night, [62]
• Blessing of the Brine, [210]
• Blood Thursday, [500]
• Bloody Thursday, [148]
• Bluecoats, worn on St. George’s Day, [193]
• Boar’s Head, at Christmas, [455], [470], [473], [477]
• Boat Sunday, [443]
• Boggons, [32]
• Bonfires, [22], [61], [313], [395]
• Bounds, beating of the, [210]
• Bounds Thursday, [210]
• Boxing Day, [493]
• Boy’s Bailiff, [287]
• Boy Bishop, [291], [432]
• Boyne, battle of, [337]
• Braggot, [117]
• Braggot Sunday, [117]
• Bread, baked on Good Friday, [149]
• Bread Mass, [347]
• Brices’ (St.) Day, [421]
• Bride-Ale, [278]
• Bridget’s (St.) Eve, [344]
• Brine, blessing of the, [210]
• Buckinghamshire, [6], [58], [69], [135], [169], [210], [234], [290], [291], [314], [323], [331], [354], [373], [390], [419], [426], [467], [493]
• Bull-baiting, [369], [439]
• Bull-running, [421]
• Buns, made on Good Friday, [150], [157]
• Burning out the Old Year, [506]
• ‘Buryin’ Peter,’ [333]
• Burying the Mace, [380]
• Bustard, eaten at Christmas, [456]
• Cake Night, [398]
• Cambridgeshire, [39], [105], [123], [234], [323], [334], [343], [419], [423], [426], [468], [494]
• Candles offered to St. Blayse, [62]
• Candle Bearing, [54]
• Candle Day, [428]
• Candlemas Ba’, [57]
• Candlemas bleeze or blaze, [56]
• Candlemas Candle, [55]
• Candlemas Day, [54]
• Candlemas Eve, [52]
• Card-playing at Christmas, [463]
• Careing Fair, [118]
• Careing Sunday, [119]
• Care Sunday, [121]
• Carl Sunday, [122]
• Carlings, [122]
• Carling Groat, [123]
• Carling Sunday, [122]
• Carol Singing, [456]
• ‘Catching,’ [109]
• Catherine’s (St.) Day, [426]
• Cathern bowl, [429]
• Cattern Day, [426]
• Chalk-back-Day, [370]
• Chare Thursday, [139]
• Charles I., King of England, execution of, [50]
• Charles II., King of England, celebration of Twelfth Night by, [29]; his Restoration, [301]
• Charlton Fair, [387]
• Cheese, given away at Christmas, [482]
• Cheshire, [69], [169], [195], [210], [234], [283], [314], [324], [405], [409], [441], [446]
• Childermas Day, [498]
• Children’s Day, [177]
• Chimney Sweepers’ Dance, [231]
• Chopping at the Tree, [167]
• Christ’s Bed, making of, [158]
• Christ’s Hospital, London, [179], [311], [374], [422]
• Christ’s Presentation, [54]
• Christmas under the Commonwealth, [454]
• Christmas Book, [456]
• Christmas Box, [19], [493]
• Christmas Candles, [456]
• Christmas Carols, [457]
• Christmas Clog, [52], [452]
• Christmas Day, [452]
• Christmas Decorations, [457]
• Christmas Drink, [473]
• Christmas Eve, [446]
• Christmas Presents, [19]
• Christmas Sports, [403]
• Christmas Tree, [463]
• Clome, the, used in wassailing, [21]
• Cloth Fair, [363]
• Church-porch, watching in the, [200]
• Churches decorated, [157], [162], [280], [281], [457]
• Claudius Mamertus, Bishop of Vienne, [204]
• ‘Clavie,’ the burning of, [507]
• Clement’s (St.) Day, [423]
• Clipping the Church, [176]
• Cob loaf stealing, [451]
• Cobbs, given away on St. Thomas’ Day, [442]
• Cocks and Dumps, [67]
• Cock Crower, [92]
• Cock Fighting, [65], [177]
• ‘Cock in the pot,’ [39]
• ‘Cock on the dunghill,’ [39]
• Cock Penny, [79]
• Cock running, [78]
• Cock throwing, [78]
• Cocque’els, [81]
• Coelcoeth, [398]
• Coffin Crusts, [458]
• Cold Possett, [502]
• Collar of Brawn, [468]
• Collop Monday, [57]
• Columbkill, [310]
• Columb’s (St.) Well, [310]
• Commencement Day, [334]
• Compostella, Shrine of St. James at, [345]
• Coquerells, [81]
• Coquilles, [81]
• Corn Showing, [172]
• ‘Corning, going a-,’ [443]
• Cornwall, [47], [58], [73], [120], [121], [128], [162], [216], [235], [275], [279], [302], [315], [324], [338], [339], [378], [395], [431], [446], [468], [501]
• Corpus Christi Day, [297]
• Corpus Christi Eve, [297]
• Coteswold Games, [292]
• Court of Array, [287]
• Coventry Show Fair, [300]
• Crab-Apples, gathered on Michaelmas Day, [376]
• Crabbing the Parson, [341]
• Crack-nut Sunday, [375]
• Cracklin Friday, [153]
• Cramp Rings, [49]
• Cresset-light, [317]
• Creeping to the Cross, [148]
• Crispin’s (St.) Day, [388]
• Cross, Invention of the, [275]
• Cross Day of the Year, [500]
• Crowdie, [88]
• Crowning of the Cock, [487]
• Croyland Abbey, knives given away at, on St. Bartholomew’s Day, [367]
• Cuckoo, [187], [192]
• Cuckoo Ale, [192]
• Cumberland, [29], [72], [159], [163], [279], [291], [310], [315], [356], [419], [469], [501]
• Curfew Bell, [78]
• Cushion Dance, [253]
• Cuthbert’s (St.) Day, [371]
• ‘Cutting off the fiddler’s head,’ [34]
• Cymhortha, [110]
• Cypress, used as decoration at Christmas, [458]
• Daft Days, [505]
• ‘Dart, throwing the,’ [370]
• David’s (St.) Day, [110]
• ‘Dead and Living Ford,’ [17]
• Decoration of Churches, [157], [162], [280], [281], [457]
• Deptford Fair, [296]
• Derbyshire, [30], [39], [74], [99], [105], [128], [165], [170], [211], [237], [283], [302], [404], [409], [412], [446], [469], [502]
• Desmas, one of the thieves crucified with our Lord, [499]
• Devils’ Knell, [452]
• Devonshire, [20], [59], [76], [100], [152], [212], [217], [237], [302], [308], [324], [348], [446]
• ‘Dipping,’ [5]
• Dipping Day, [235]
• Dirge Loaf, [410]
• Dish Fair, [387]
• Dismal Day, the, [275]
• Distaff’s (St.) Day, [36]
• Doggett, Thomas, [349]
• Dogs, Whipping of, [386], [387]
• Dole Bread, [401]
• Doleing Day, [443]
• Dorsetshire, [30], [55], [152], [159], [205], [385], [441], [470]
• Dough-nut Day, [78]
• Dover, Robert, [292]
• Drinking Sowins, [489]
• Druids, [1], [223]
• Duck-under-water, [253]
• Dulce Domum, sung at Winchester School, [284]
• Dumb-cake, [199], [312], [384]
• Durham, [303], [371]
• Dutton, family of, privileged to license the Cheshire minstrels, [324]
• Dyzemas Day, [499]
• Easter Day, [161]
• Easter Eve, [159]
• Easter Monday, [169]
• Easter Tuesday, [179]
• Eccles Cakes, [369]
• Eccles Wake, [369]
• Edward IV. of England, his Coronation, [498]
• Eel Fair, [293]
• Egg-hopping, [329]
• Egg Saturday, [52]
• Elecampane, [171]
• Election of kings by beans, [24]
• Elizabeth, Queen of England, her accession observed, [422]
• Epiphany, [24]
• Epping Hunt, [171]
• Erconwald’s (St.) Day, [422]
• Essex, [6], [94], [153], [171], [212], [237], [280], [378], [416], [470]
• Eton Montem, [290]
• Eve of the Epiphany, [20]
• Eve of Paul’s Tide, [47]
• Evelyn, John, [183], [454]
• Evil May-day, [248]
• Execution of Charles I., King of England, [50]
• Fadé-dance, [276]
• Fag-pies, [119]
• Fairchild Lecture, [291]
• Faith’s (St.) Day, [384]
• Farthing Loaf Day, [319]
• Fastren’s E’en, [88]
• Fastyngonge Tuesday, [81]
• Fern, superstitions connected with, [312]
• Ferrers, George, [460]
• Festival of Kings, [20]
• Fiddler’s Head, cutting off of the, [34]
• Fig-one, [15]
• Fig-pies, [119]
• Fig-pie Wake, [119]
• Fig-sue, [15], [153]
• Fig-Sunday, [128], [133]
• Fires, lighting of, on Eve of the Epiphany, [22]; on St Blaize’s Day, [61]; on St. John’s Eve, [313]; on Hallow Eve, [395]
• ‘First Foot,’ [5], [17], [483]
• Flag Day, [332]
• Flap-dragon, [463]
• Flap-jack, [63]
• Flitting Day, [301]
• Floralia, [223], [245]
• Flower of the Well, [17]
• Flower Sermon, [291]
• Flowering Sunday, [134]
• Font-hallowing, [159]
• Fool-plough, [37]
• Foot ball, [75], [83], [87], [401]
• Freemen’s Well, the, [201]
• Friars’ Girdles, worn by ladies, [94]
• Friday in Lide, [120]
• Fritter Bell, [78]
• Fritter Thursday, [96]
• Fruttors Thursday, [96]
• Funeral of the Alleluia, [45]
• Furmity, [117], [472], [483]
• Furry Festival, [275]
• Gammon of Bacon, eaten at Easter, [162]
• Gang Monday Land, [210]
• Gangweek, [204]
• Ganging Day, [380]
• Garland Day, [243]
• Garland Sunday, [376]
• Garlic Sunday, [376]
• Gaunt, John of, [358]
• George’s (St.) Day, [192]
• Gerard’s Hall, [247]
• Gestas, one of the thieves crucified with our Lord, [499]
• Giants, display of, at Chester, [314]
• Gregory’s (St.) Day, [125]
• Glastonbury thorn, [34], [454], [467]
• Gloucestershire, [22], [238], [280], [292], [379], [388], [447], [470], [499], [502]
• Gloves, at Fairs, [297], [348]
• Glove Money, [4]
• Glove Silver, [348]
• God Cakes, [12]
• Goddes Day, [148]
• God’s Day, [148]
• God’s Friday, [148]
• ‘God speed the Plough,’ [41]
• Goluan, [315]
• Good Friday, [148]
• Good Friday Bread, [149]
• ‘Gooding, going-a,’ [438]
• Goodish Tuesday, [86]
• ‘Good Morrow, Valentine,’ [109]
• Good Pas Day, [118]
• Goose, eaten at Michaelmas, [376]
• Goose Fair, Nottingham, [383]
• Goose-pies, [196]
• Gosling, May, [233], [265]
• Gospel Trees, [208]
• Gowk, hunting the, [188]
• Grace Cup, [450]
• Grass Week, [204]
• Green Bower Feast, [289]
• Greenock Fair, [337]
• Grimaldi, Joseph, [461]
• ‘Grotto, pray remember the,’ [345]
• Guisards, [488]
• Guisings, [181]
• Gule of August, [347]
• Gunpowder Plot, [410]
• Guy Fawkes, his day, [410]
• Gyst Ale, [181]
• Hackin, the, at Christmas, [456]
• Hailing the Lamb, [212]
• Halgaver Court, [389]
• Hall’ Monday, [58]
• Hallow Eve, [394]
• Hampshire, [77], [119], [187], [238], [281], [284], [296], [304], [305], [372], [448]
• Handsel Monday, [19], [488]
• Harlequinade, [461]
• Harrow School, shooting at, [357]
• Hay, strewn in churches, [327], [338]
• Hays, the, [34]
• Heaving, [173], [177]
• Heaving Days, [175]
• Heavy Cake, [216], [236]
• Helen’s (St.) Day, [274], [360]
• Hempseed, divination by, [99], [313], [400]
• Hen-threshing, [68]
• Hentzner, Paul, visits Bartholomew Fair, [361]
• Herb-pudding, [151]
• Herefordshire, [7], [22], [106], [128], [281], [409], [441], [448], [471]
• Heriot’s Hospital, [309]
• Hertfordshire, [78], [128], [181], [238], [380], [442]
• Het Pint, [15]
• Hilary’s (St.) Day, [44]
• Hirings, for servants, [279]
• Hobby-horse, [236], [461], [463], [486]
• Hobby-horse Dance, [480]
• Hobby-horsing, [262]
• Hock Day, [180]
• Hock Money, [191]
• Hock-tide, [188]
• Hocktide play at Chester, [189]
• Hock Tuesday, [188]
• Hodening, [472]
• Hogmanay, [488], [505]
• Hoke Day, [189]
• Holiday of St. Simeon, [54]
• Hollantide Eve, [396]
• Holly, used as a decoration at Christmas, [458]
• Holly, its derivation, [457]
• Holly Boy, [107]
• Holly Bussing, [180]
• Holly Night, [35]
• Holy Cross Day, [372]
• Holy Innocents’ Day, [497]
• Holy Rood Day, [372]
• Holy Thursday, [215]
• Holy Saturday, [160]
• Honey Fairs, [469]
• Hood, throwing the, [32]
• Hoofing-place, [12]
• Horns, blown on May Day, [260]
• Horses, bled on St. Stephen’s Day, [492]
• Horses, decorated on May Day, [243]
• Hot Cockles, [463]
• Hot Cross Buns, [150], [157]
• Hot Pint, [15], [17]
• Hunting the Gowk, [188]
• Hunting the Ram, [354]
• Hunting the Squirrel, [404], [429], [430], [463], [481]
• Hunting the Wren, [494]
• Huntingdonshire, [40], [78], [217], [241], [334]
• Inns of Court, [396], [473]
• Ireland, [23], [75], [91], [96], [125], [136], [139], [158], [160], [168], [178], [183], [198], [222], [270], [282], [300], [310], [321], [329], [337], [340], [344], [370], [375], [383], [403], [408], [420], [452], [491], [497], [500], [508]
• Irving, Washington, his remarks on seeing a Maypole, [234]
• Isle of Axholme, [30]
• Isle of Man, [8], [33], [80], [154], [221], [246], [316], [325], [348], [395], [431], [442], [449], [472], [494], [503]
• Isle of Thanet, [183], [428]
• Isle of Wight, [87], [504]
• Ivy, used as a decoration at Christmas, [458], [478]
• Ivy Girl, [107]
• Jack and Joan Fair, [385]
• Jack of Hilton, [10]
• Jack O’Lent, [93]
• Jack of May, [264]
• Jack-pudding, [463]
• James’ (St.) Day, [344]
• James (St.) the Less, his day, [234]
• James’ (St.) Palace, [153]
• Jeu-nhydn, [468]
• John’s (St.) Day, [323]
• John’s (St.) Eve, [311]
• John O Gaunt’s Day, [191]
• Jolly Lads, [134]
• Joseph of Arimathea, legend regarding his staff, [467]
• Judas Iscariot, flogging of, [155]
• Jough-ny-nollick, [473]
• Juniper, burnt before cattle, [18]
• Kenelm’s (St.) Day, [341]
• Kenilworth Castle, Queen Elizabeth’s visit to, [189]
• Kent, [78], [107], [165], [207], [242], [296], [332], [339], [345], [385], [423], [427], [429], [448], [471]
• Ket Bank, [220]
• Kill Bull, the, [477]
• Kings created by Beans, [20]
• King’s Cock Crower, [92]
• King of the Bean, [26]
• King of Cockneys, [498]
• King of the Millers, [285]
• Kit-dressing, [231]
• Knappan, [184]
• Knives, given away on St. Bartholomew’s Day, [367]
• Knotting-sowins, [489]
• Laa’l Brushey, [51]
• Lad’s Valentine, [99]
• Lady Day, [180]
• Lady Godiva, [280], [300]
• Lady of the Lamb, [297]
• Lamb Ale, [278]
• Lambert Simmel, [115]
• Lambs’ Wool, [23], [449], [483]
• Lammas Day, [347]
• Lammas Towers, [351]
• Lamprey-pies, [470]
• Lancashire, [7], [79], [119], [134], [153], [181], [213], [217], [243], [284], [316], [334], [345], [355], [368], [369], [384], [385], [395], [406], [472]
• La Sheachanna na bleanagh, [275]
• Lating or Leeting the Witches, [395]
• Laurel, used as a Christmas decoration, [458]
• Lawless Court, at King’s Hill, [378]
• Lawless Hour, at Kidderminster, [379]
• Leaping the Well, [201]
• Leeks, worn on St. David’s Day, [110], [113]
• Leek Pasties, [83]
• Leet Ale, [278]
• Leicestershire, [40], [79], [197], [284], [338]
• Leith Races, [335]
• Lent Crocking, [76]
• Leonard’s (St.) Day, [416]
• Lide, Friday in, [120]
• Lifting, [173]
• Lincolnshire, [30], [40], [128], [154], [220], [245], [294], [367], [372], [412], [421]
• Loaf Mass, [347]
• Looe Fair Day, [236]
• Long Rope Day, [157]
• “Looking through the keyhole,” [105]
• Lord Mayor’s Day, [417], [459]
• Lord Mayor of Pennyless Cone, [487]
• Lord of Misrule, [339], [459], [474], [478]
• Louis XI. of France, his superstition regarding Holy Innocents’ Day, [498]
• Lotts, the, [350]
• Low Easter Day, [184]
• Low Sunday, [183]
• Luke’s (St.) Day, [386]
• Mace Board, [246]
• Mace, burying the, [380]
• Mace Monday, [346]
• Mainstyr Fiddler, [34]
• Mallard Night, [44]
• Mandate Thursday, [140]
• Margaret’s (St.) Day, [343]
• Mari Lwyd, [486]
• Mark’s (St.) Day, [200], [203]
• Mark’s (St.) Eve, [199], [200]
• Marlings, [181]
• Marlocking, [181]
• Mart, its meaning, [418]
• Martinmas, [347]
• Martin’s (St.) Day, [418]
• Mary’s (St.) Day, in Lent, [180]
• Matthew’s (St.) Day, [373]
• Maternus (St.), [463]
• Maundy Loaves, [140]
• Maundy Money, [140]
• Maundy Thursday, [139]
• May Bough, [243]
• May Day, [223]
• May Dew, [225], [242]
• May Dolls, [216]
• May Eve, [215]
• May Fair, [249]
• May Feast, [263]
• May Gads, [245]
• May Games, [225]
• May Gosling, [233], [265]
• May Lady, [234]
• May Music, [216]
• Maypoles, [228]
• May Queen, [238], [246], [251], [255]
• May Songs, [232], [233], [238], [240], [242], [251], [255], [257], [259], [261], [262], [263], [273]
• May Syllabub, [257]
• ‘Maying, going a,’ [224]
• Michael (St.), Apparition of, [275]
• Michaelmas Cake, [383]
• Michaelmas Day, [376]
• Michaelmas Eve, [375]
• Michaelmas Goose, [376]
• Michael’s (St.) Bannock, [383]
• Middlesex, [32], [48], [80], [113], [147], [154], [160], [166], [174], [179], [187], [213], [247], [291], [297], [305], [316], [326], [344], [345], [316], [349], [355], [357], [361], [374], [396], [406], [413], [429], [473]
• Midlent Sunday, [113], [116]
• Midsummer Day, [323]
• Midsummer Eve, [311]
• Midsummer Men, [312]
• Midsummer Watch, [316], [318]
• Milk Maids’ Dance, [231]
• Millers, King of the, [285]
• Mince-pies, [458]
• Minched pies, [458]
• Minstrels’ Festival, [358]
• Miracle Plays, [283], [298], [343], [478]
• Mischief Night, [217]
• Misrule, Lord of, [339], [459], [474], [478]
• Mistletoe, [458], [459]
• Mock, the, [446]
• Modwen’s (St.) Day, [390]
• Molly Grime, figure in Glentham Church, [154]
• Monmouthshire, [407]
• Morris-dancers, [30], [227], [258]
• Moseley’s Dole, [10]
• ‘Mothering, going a,’ [116]
• Mothering Sunday, [116]
• Mummers, [430], [461], [469], [478], [480]
• Mumping Day, [441]
• ‘Mumping, going a,’ [441]
• Mutton-pies, [458]
• Myche, a kind of bread, [96]
• Nativity of the Virgin Mary, [372]
• Newark Raffling Day, [51]
• New Year’s Day, [1]
• New Year’s Eve, [501]
• New Year’s Gifts, [1]
• New Year’s Ode, [4]
• New Year’s Offerings, [509]
• New Year’s Song, [19]
• Newton, Sir Isaac, on the time of Christ’s birth, [453]
• Nicholas (St.), tradition relating to, [436]
• Nicholas’ (St.) Day, [432]
• Nicholas’ (St.) Eve, [432]
• Nickanan Night, [58]
• Nicking, of Swans, [346]
• Nod Beuno, [295]
• Nog Money, [506]
• Norfolk, [42], [81], [95], [100], [107], [166], [183], [293], [298], [344], [370], [449], [475], [496]
• Northamptonshire, [42], [82], [108], [132], [199], [213], [251], [281], [286], [305], [306], [327], [332], [340], [413], [427], [430], [449], [476], [499], [503]
• Northumberland, [9], [83], [175], [180], [201], [214], [257], [282], [294], [298], [306], [318], [327], [332], [335], [389], [476]
• Nottinghamshire, [9], [51], [54], [83], [109], [124], [175], [214], [257], [306], [318], [380], [383], [397], [413], [442], [449], [476]
• Nut Crack Night, [394]
• ‘Nutting, going a,’ [373]
• Oak Apple Day, [301]
• Offering Days, [5]
• Offering Silver, [481]
• Oiel Verry, [449]
• Olave’s (St.) Day, [346]
• ‘Old Ball,’ [486]
• Old Christmas Day, [30], [34], [467]
• ‘Old Clem,’ [432]
• Old Michaelmas Day, [380]
• Old Midsummer Day, [328]
• Old Year, burning out the, [506]
• Onion Fair, [373]
• Oswald’s (St.) Day, [355]
• Oxen, superstition regarding, [447]
• Oxfordshire, [9], [43], [52], [84], [97], [110], [113], [123], [124], [133], [134], [156], [167], [208], [214], [222], [258], [282], [287], [297], [319], [327], [414], [442], [450], [476], [496], [504]
• Oysters, eaten on St. James’ Day, [344]
• Pace Eggs, [163]
• Pack Monday Fair, [385]
• Paganalia, [493]
• Paignton Fair, [308]
• Palm Saturday, [126]
• Palm Sunday, [126]
• ‘Palming, going a,’ [127]
• Pan-burn-Bell, [82]
• Pancakes, [63], [375]
• Pancake Bell, [62], [87]
• Pancake Month, [65]
• Pantomime, [461]
• Parish Clerks’ Meeting, [177]
• Parkin, [416]
• Paschal Day, [148]
• Paschal Taper, [159]
• Passion-dock, [151]
• Passion Sunday, [121]
• Paste-Egg Day, [118]
• Patrick’s Crosses, [136]
• Patrick’s (St.) Day, [135]
• Patrick’s Pot, [137]
• Paul’s (St.) Cathedral, [49]
• Paul’s (St.) Day, [49]
• Paul’s (St.) Eve, [47]
• Paul Pitcher Night, [48]
• Penderell, Richard, his monument decorated on Oak Apple Day, [305]
• Penny Hedge, the, [209]
• Penny Loaf Day, [125]
• Pepper Cake, [483]
• Pershore Fair Day, [192]
• Peter’s (St.) Day, [331]
• Peter-Pence, [347]
• Philip’s (St.) Day, [234]
• Picrous Day, [431]
• Piepowder, Court of, [364]
• Pin-money, [4]
• Pippins, divination by, [397]
• Piran’s (St.) Day, [121]
• Plough Bullocks, [39]
• Plough-lights, [37]
• Plough Monday, [37]
• Plough Witchers, [40]
• Plough Witching, [40]
• Plowlick Monday, [42]
• Plum porridge, [462]
• Plumb-pudding, [462]
• Plumb-pudding Money, [482]
• Poisson d’Avril, [184]
• Pope Joan, [181]
• Pope-Ladies, [181]
• Pork Acre, [413]
• Pot-fair, [323]
• Preston Guild, [368]
• ‘Progging, going a,’ [414]
• Procession Week, [204]
• Processioning, [208], [213]
• Psalm Caking, [406]
• ‘Pudding-pieing, going a,’ [172]
• Pulgen, [487]
• Purification of the Virgin Mary, [54]
• Push-penny, [303]
• Quaaltagh, [8]
• Raffling-Day, at Newark, [51]
• Ram, hunting the, [354]
• Ram Feast, [257]
• Ravenglass Fair, [356]
• Rayer, or Rahere, founder of Bartholomew Fair, [361]
• Ream of the Well, [17]
• Red Spear Knights, [291]
• Reed Day, [332]
• Relic Sunday, [340]
• Restoration Day, [301]
• Rhyne Toll, the, [390]
• Richard’s (St.) Day, [188]
• ‘Riding of the George,’ [197]
• ‘Riding the Marches,’ 292, [307]
• ‘Rising Peter,’ [333]
• Robin Hood, [220], [257]
• Roche’s (St.) Day, [350]
• Rock Day, [36]
• Rogation Sunday, [204]
• Rope-pulling, at Ludlow, [85]
• Rosemary, used as decoration at Christmas, [458]
• Rowan-tree, use of, [154], [394]
• Rowan-tree Day, [274]
• Rowan-tree Gads, [274]
• Royal Oak Day, [301]
• Rumbald Night, [448]
• Running Lands, [242]
• Rushes, strewn in churches, [280], [294]
• Rush-bearing, [334], [367]
• Salmon, superstition regarding, [270]
• Salt-Silver, [418]
• Saturnalia, [458], [463]
• Sauin, [395]
• Scalding Thursday, [375]
• Scambling Days, [95]
• Scarlet Days, at Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, [278]
• Scholastica’s (St.) Day, [97]
• Scilly Isles, [84], [479]
• Scotland, [14], [19], [43], [46], [56], [88], [120], [126], [177], [188], [267], [275], [292], [301], [307], [309], [320], [334], [335], [351], [382], [394], [399], [408], [410], [430], [437], [438], [487], [505]
• Scrutiny Night, [504]
• Septuagesima, [45]
• ‘Setting the Colne,’ [213]
• ‘Seven joys of the Virgin,’ [464]
• Shaftesbury Bezant, [205]
• Shamrock, [136], [139]
• Sharp Tuesday, [86]
• Sheelah’s Day, [139]
• Sher, Shere, Sheere, Thursday, [146]
• Shier Thursday, [146]
• Shig-Shag, [305]
• Shrewsbury Show, [300]
• Shrid-pies, [458]
• Shropshire, [82], [262], [287], [301], [407], [410]
• Shrove Tuesday, [39]
• Shying at Leaden Cocks, [67]
• ‘Shy for Shy,’ [67]
• Simeon (St.), holiday of, [54]
• Simnel Bread, [115]
• Simnel, Lambert, [115]
• Simnels, [114]
• Simnel Sunday, [113]
• Singed Sheeps’ Heads, carried on St. Andrew’s Day, [430]
• Singing E’en, [501]
• Slap-dragon, [463]
• Sloe Fair, [351]
• Smock Race, [214]
• Smuchdan, [18]
• Smugging, [68]
• Snap-dragon, [462]
• Sollaghyn, [80]
• Somersetshire, [34], [86], [95], [262], [282], [328], [479], [500]
• Song of the Mallard, [44]
• Song of the Wren, [35]
• Sonsy-haggis, [491]
• Soul Cakes, [405]
• Souling, going a, [405], [407]
• Soul Mass Cakes, [409]
• Sow Day, [438]
• Sowans-bowie, [490]
• Spirit Fire, [463]
• Squirrels, hunting of, [404], [429], [430], [481]
• Staffordshire, [10], [23], [34], [86], [203], [208], [215], [263], [287], [340], [358], [390], [407], [425], [443], [480]
• Stagg, offering of, on St. Cuthbert’s Day, [371]
• Staylaces, given to the Clergy on Ascension Day, [213]
• Stephening, [493]
• Stephen’s (St.) Day, [492]
• Stephen’s (St.) Pudding, [494]
• Stir-up-Sunday, [431]
• Subterranean Christmas Bells, [476]
• Suffolk, [86], [215], [263], [481]
• Sugar-Cupping, [165]
• Surrey, [86], [133], [156], [263], [293], [341], [357], [373], [375]
• Sussex, [11], [157], [264], [381], [389], [414], [430], [443], [450]
• Swan-upping, [346]
• Swarf Penny, [420]
• ‘Sweeping the Girls,’ [106]
• Swig, [113]
• Swithin’s (St.) Day, [341]
• Swithin’s (St.) Farthings, [341]
• Sword-dance, [485]
• Tander, Tandrew, name given to St. Andrew’s Day, [430]
• Tansy Cake, [167]
• Tenbury Fair Day, [192]
• Terminalia, [204]
• Tharve Cake, [30]
• Thomas’ (St.) Day, [438]
• Thomas’ (St.) Onion, [439]
• ‘Thomasin, going a,’ [441]
• Threshing the Hen, [68]
• Throwing at Cocks, [66]
• ‘Throwing the Dart,’ [370]
• ‘Throwing the Hood,’ [32]
• Tibba’s (St.) Day, [438]
• Timber Waits, [203]
• Timbrel Waits, [203]
• Tindles, [409]
• Tinley, [405]
• Toothache, remedy for, [464]
• Tooting-horn, [352]
• Trap and ball, [86]
• Trinity Monday, [296]
• Trinity Sunday, [294]
• Trolollay, derivation of, [505]
• Trundling of Eggs, [178]
• Turkey, [148], [465]
• Tuth Day, [192]
• Twelfth Cake, [24]
• Twelfth Day, [24]
• Twelfth Night, [24]
• Twelfth Night Cards, [25]
• Tynwald Day, [325]
• Usque-Cashrichd, [488]
• Valentine’s (St.) Day, [375]
• Valentine’s (St.) Eve, [98]
• Valentines, [101]
• Valentine dealing, [105]
• Valentining, [105]
• Vessel Cup, [464]
• Vitus’ (St.) Day, [311]
• Virgin Mary, Annunciation of, [180]; Assumption of, [357]; Nativity of, [372]; Purification of, [54]
• Wad-Shooting, [489]
• Waits, [465], [485]
• Wakes Monday, [404]
• Wales, [35], [88], [113], [134], [158], [168], [177], [184], [222], [265], [289], [295], [297], [320], [390], [398], [410], [425], [445], [486], [496]
• Walk Money, [183]
• ‘Walking the Fair,’ [203]
• Walnut-tree, legend of a miraculous, [467]
• Ward Penny, [420]
• Warwickshire, [12], [175], [300], [419], [443], [450]
• Wrath Money, [420]
• Wassail Bowl, [501]
• Wassail Eve, [23]
• Wassaile, [28]
• Wastel, the, [115]
• Watch Night, [501]
• Weaver, introduces the Pantomime, [461]
• Well-dressing, [211]
• Wesley Bob, [483]
• Westminster School, tossing the pancake at, [80]
• Westmoreland, [6], [35], [264], [415], [481]
• ‘Wetting the Block,’ [119]
• Wheel, its origin, [454]
• Whip-dog Day, [387]
• Whipping Toms, [79]
• Whirlin Cakes, [123]
• Whirlin Sunday, [123]
• White Sunday, [183]
• White Thursday, [468]
• Whitsun Ale, [278]
• Whitsunday, [278]
• Whitsun Monday, [283]
• Whitsun Mysteries, [283]
• Whitsuntide, [278], [281]
• Whitsun Tuesday, [290]
• Whitsun Tryste Fair, [282]
• ‘Wigs,’ a sort of Cake, [426]
• Wilfrid’s (St.) Feast, [351]
• Wiltshire, [76], [133], [295], [309], [329], [415]
• Wives’ Feast, [54]
• Worcestershire, [12], [157], [176], [188], [192], [215], [265], [306], [319], [341], [416], [428], [443], [482], [500]
• Wren, hunting of, [494]
• Wren-boys, [497]
• Wroth Money, [420]
• Wycoller Hall, Christmas at, [472]
• Yarrow, divination connected with, [273]
• Yew, Churches decorated with, on Good Friday, [156]
• Yorkshire, [12], [23], [43], [56], [87], [96], [110], [123], [133], [148], [157], [160], [167], [200], [209], [274], [299], [320], [329], [331], [333], [341], [351], [367], [386], [398], [416], [420], [444], [451], [482], [496], [504]
• Yorkshire Hagmena Song, [14]
• Youling, [207]
• Yule, derivation of the term, [453]
• Yule of August, [347]
• Yule Babies, [476]
• Yule Candle, [451]
• Yule Clog, [452], [465]
• Yule Day, [487]
• Yule Log, [453], [465]
• Yule Straw, [489]
• Yule-tide, [453]

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