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Catalogue of Bj'and Material.

WALES.

I. Name.

LOCALITY.

II. Natural Phenomena.

The sun dances on rising A prayer offered at sunrise cannot fail to be granted

III. General Observances.

{a) Whit-Monday. Early rising. Sloth punished by the stocks - - - -

Whit-Monday. Farm - boys

roused villagers and tied

nettles to the doors of

sluggards. - -

(&) Pins thrown into certain

parishes for luck (c) House-to-house visitation.

Boy in girl's clothes adorned with flowers and leaves, taken about with songs to solicit gifts - - -

Girl, gaily dressed, taken in like manner. Both i8th cent. - - -.

{d) Morris-dancing.

9 men, a fool, and a man called Morgan, in woman's clothes, with blackened face. Sometimes also a Jack-in-the-Green -

1652. 1652.

South \^'ales.

South Wales. South Wales.

South Wales. South Wales.

South Wales.

SCOTLAND.

Observances.

Fairs and Perambulations.

Town gate adorned with flowers at

Fair -. . . . Dunbar.

Part of Marches ridden Whitsun- day, 1665, changed to third Monday in May, 1702, owing to Dunblane Whit Monday Fair - Peebles.

Marches ridden day after Whitsun- tide Fair, called Landsmark or Lange mark Day - - - Lanark.