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Catalogue of Brand Material.

To send away mummers or

wassailers unrewarded on

Christmas Eve To permit a woman to be the

first comer to the house on

Christmas morning - To turn a feather-bed or

mattress ; it will change

the " luck " - - - It will cause the death of

the occupant of the bed - To do any work on Christmas

Day " - - - - To marry on that day Three weddings on Christmas

Day will cause a death

within the year To sit down an odd number at

Christmas dinner or supper

LOCALITY.

West Riding.

North Country. 1

Norfolk.

South Yorksb. ?

(Locality ?) Yorksh.2

Suffolk. North Riding.

{d) Christmas Evergreens.

Houses and chuiches adorned with evergreens

Evergreens called " Christ- mas " -

Put up on Christmas Eve, or early Christmas Day

Unlucky to take them into house sooner -

Unlucky in bedchambers Stuck in window-panes Churches " stuck " with boughs of holly and ivy set in small holes bored in pews. Prob. obsolete

General.

Lanes., Cheshire, Salop, Somerset, Hants, etc.

General.

Staffs., Salop, Herefsh., Glos., Devon, Rutland, etc.

Lines, (nr. Grantham).

General.

General: e.g. Yorksh., Lines, (nr. Grantham), Derbysh. (Castleton), Staffs. (Norbury), Salop (Edgmond), S.W.Wilts.

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-Ecclesiastically prohibited, Advent to Hilary term.