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Catalogue of Bi^and Material.

LOCALITY.

" Clipping the Church " carried out Wolverhampton,

mingham merly)

Pleasure Fairs held

(couples roll down Observatory Hill)

(" white cakes " sold) -

(biscuits sold)

(raffling) -

Bir-

and (for-

Painswick

(Glos.).

Halesowen (Salop), Heme

Bay, Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Greenwich.

Poulton le Fylde(Lancs.).

Norwich.

Penzance.

EASTER TUESDAY.

" Holly-bussing " (decorating village cross and dancing to music of clerk's fiddle) -

" Clerk's Ale --

Football Contest ; " Uppies " (iron- workers) V." Downies " (sailors) - " Eakring Ball Play " (football) " Grandy Needles " (thread the needle) played in streets after " j erring pace- eggs " in Vicar's field - - - -

Fair (peal of bells rung) - - - -

Northumb. (Nether Wit- ton). Wilts. (Chiseldon).

Cumb. (Workington). Notts. (Eakring).

Westm. (Kendal). Devon (East Budleigh).

EASTER SUNDAY (WALES).

I. Natural Phenomena.

The sun dances at rising - - General.

Weather influences Whitsuntide

weather - General. Water drawn down stream in

silence before sunrise is proof

against witches and evil spirits - South Wales. Birth or baptism on Easter Day

fortunate - South Wales.

II. Observances.

(a) Things forbidden or deprecated. To step barefoot on the floor

on rising - - - - South Wales.