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lighted ; and candles must burn themselves out - -. -

Unlucky to snuff Yule candle, move candle- stick, or leave table till candles burnt out Piece of Yule candle saved for luck - -.

Candle left burning all night, otherwise a death in house - - - -

Candle left burning in lead- mine for " owd mon " -

Lighted candles fixed in clay in last " corf " or basket of coal sent up from the pit before the hohdays -

Lighted candles fixed in clay on circular plat- form, a large one in centre, carried about by colher lads -

Children dance round painted lighted candles in box or basket of sand ; girls and boys separately

Church towers lighted up

Two candelabra lighted in afternoons - - -

Cathedral a blaze of light, Sunday before Christmas

(/) First Foot on Christmas Morning. First Foot observed on

LOCALITY.

Swaledale.

Northumbd., Yorks. Whitby.

Derby sh. ? Castleton (Derbysh.).

Northumberland.

Salop (Oswestry).

Cornwall (Penrith). Cornwall (Zennor, etc.).

JManchester Cathedral.

Ripon Cathedral.

Christmas Day as well as New Year's Day

Called "Lucky Bird "

Woman unlucky first foot -

If woman leaves house on

Christmas Eve must

Yorks., Lanes., Derbysh.,

Herefordshire. Yorkshire, (Swaledale,

Aislaby, Pickering). General.

return before midnight - South Yorksh.