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Catalog2ie of Brand Material.

Collected by the parish clerk as part of the parson's Easter dues

(Farmers' wives still pre- sent the parson with eggs.)

LOCALITY.

Denbighshire, etc.

III. Local Observances.

Throwing keys or pins into St.

Catherine's Well - - - Criccieth. Throwing a crooked pin into the

Pinwell, " to throw Lent away " Pembrokeshire (Gum-

frey ston) . Music, and distribution of doles on

hillside - Llandrillo, near Bala.

Playing ball in the castle grounds Conway.

EASTER MONDAY.

I. Name.

" Everybody's Monday " (authority,

Hazlitt). " Pull-ye, haul-ye " Monday and

Tuesday - - - - -

II. General Observances.

Visiting Wells ; scattering flowers and drawing water, for luck

Setting up a decorated birch-bough on the churchyard cross ; watch- ing it to guard against thieves -

Dancing round an oak-tree (obs.) - " Lifting " or " heaving " women three times in a chair, and kiss- ing them - - - - -

Montgom. (Llan- santffraid).

Glamorganshire, Carmar- thenshire.

Glamorganshire (Llan-

dundwyd, etc.). South Wales.

North Wales generally, Glamorganshire (1701- 1741).

III. Special Local Observance.

" The Parish Clerk's Meeting " [i.e. tea-party) - - - -

Feast at Well (drinking sugar and water) - - -.

Tenby and Gumfreyston Montgom. (Llanerfyl).