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 78 Catalogue of Brand Material.

MAN.

I. Things Forbidden.

To heat iron in the fire. (A wooden poker, made of ash or rowan, is therefore used.)

II. Viands.

Eggs and fish.

Three-cornered bannocks : baked on the hearth to avoid using the griddle.

SCILLY. " Limpeting " (gathering limpets) practised.

GUERNSEY.

Limpeting practised.

Cross-buns introduced in modern times.

SARK.

Customary Pastimes.

Sailing toy boats. Playing rounders.

EASTERTIDE.

(hicluding Low Sunday and Hocktide.)

EASTER EVE.

ENGLAND.

If you listen in a graveyard, you will hear locality.

the dead talking -. - . (Qy. authority and loca-

lity ?) Boys carry a black flag, repeating a ditty Dorset.

WALES. Called " Slashing Saturday " - - - Montgomer^'shire.