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 Catalogue of Brand Alaterial.

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Small dolls put in it Lighted up with candles

Hung from centre of ceiling, mistletoe suspended from it - -. .

Used without mistletoe before introduction of railways and carried kissing privileges -

Mistletoe bough itself bedecked - -.

Bunch of furze stuck with floured berries used

Evergreens taken down. Mistletoe left hanging till

next year. Frame of Christmas Bunch

kept for luck Holly and ivy, etc., taken

down Twelfth, or " Old

Christmas " Day -

Holly and iw, etc., taken down Candlemas Eve

Holly and ivy, etc., taken down Shrove Tuesday

Holly and ivy, etc., taken down Good Friday

Must be burnt - - -

Burnt in fire that fries pan- cakes - - - - Unlucky to bum them

Must be thrown away

Some kept all the year as safeguard against light- nine - - - -

LOCALITY.

Lines. (Bottesford).

Ijncs. (Bottesford, Ep- worth), Cheshire, Corn- wall.

General.

Cleveland, Lines., South Notts., Cheshire.

Wore.

Devon (Hartland), Corn- wall.

Derbysh. (1850).

Cheshire, Sheffield, East Cornwall, London.

Salop, Herefsh., Devon.

Lanes. (?).

Yorksh. {Gent. Mag.

(1811). Salop (Little Wenlock),

Herefordshire, Wore.

Lanes. (?).

Lines., Cheshire, Staffs. (Need wood, Tutbury), East Cornwall.

Cheshire, Staffs. (Tut- bury).

Needwood.