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 Catalogue of Brand Matei'ial.


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demanding pancakes, run- away knocks and rings

" Lent-crocking " ; begging, with rhyme, for any gift -

Throwing Lent-sherds against doors, with rhyme de- manding pancakes next day - - - -

Throwing crockery into houses after dark

Crockery thrown on both days, especially if pan- cakes not forthcoming

" Drowin' o' Cloam : ^

(i) Thrown into the house, the thrower departs secretly - - -

(2) Throwers say rhyme and decamp. Residents follow to catch them, black their faces, and give pancakes ^ -

(3) Stones thrown at doors

in. Local observance.

Hurling matches between two parishes (obsolete) Between Toms, Wills, Johns, and all others, played on sands Between townsmen and coun- trymen - - - -

Between married and unmarried

LOCALITY.

Devon (remote villages in).

Devon (Bridestowe).

Devon (South Molton). Devon (Northam).

Devon (Bai-nstaple, Bide- ford, Bramber, Ash- ford, Buckland Bre- wer, etc.).

Hill district of West Somerset ( Withypool).

Somerset (Hawkridge). Somerset (Wellington).

Cornwall.

Cornwall (St. Ives).

Cornwall (St. Colomb).

(Oy. date.) Cornwall (Truro).

SOUTH WALES.

Mrs. Trevelyan states tljat children call at houses and sing the Lent-crocking rhyme (which she quotes) in Welsh. (Folk-Lore and Folk-stories of Wales, p. 246.)

1 Cloam is crockery. In the Vale district these are called Lent-crocks. - Illustration of this as a game 1823. Qy. Shrove Tuesday ?