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 Catalogue of Brand Material.

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EASTER DAY.

ENGLAND.

I. Names.

Goddes Sondaie (i6th century). Holy Sunday. - . Goodfeast Day Paste-egg Day Bowl-egg Sunday Rive-Kite Sunday

II. Natural Phenomena.

Coincidence with Lady-Day portentous. Weather governs year's weather,

harvest-weather, Wliitsuntide

weather, etc. The sun dances on rising

LOCALITY.

Sussex.

Yorks. (Hornsea).

Northumberland.

Rochdale.

Hull.

No one can see it, as the Devil hides it - _. .

It trembles - - -. It whirls round and jumps A lamb is seen in it - Its rays are Jacob's ladder It is double _ -. .

Apparitions seen in Waters.

St. Austin's Well

The Mermaid's Pool - - - Lent lilies (daffodils) presage death

if brought into the house before

Easter -. . . . A lamb seen on rising on Easter

Day brings luck -. . Birds spoil old clothes. Ring made of silver offered at

Easter cures fits -. .

Northumb., Durham, Yorks., Lines., Nor- folk, Derbysh., Staffs., Salop, Herefordsh., So- merset, Devon, Corn- wall, Sussex.

Sussex.

Salop (Titterstone, Clee).

Devon.

Devon, Somerset.

Lines.

East Riding.^

Dorset (Cerne). Derbysh. (Kinderscout).

Cornwall.

Devon ? General.

Berks.


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