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Catalogue of Brand Matej'ial.

Site called Purgatory, men ran in circle round and round fire

Teanlay kept up till 1851, to free cornfields from tares, cattle from sickness, bring good luck, and discover future -. - -

Sites of former fires marked by cairns

Marked stones under fires used to divine owner's fate : thrown next morning on cairns. Sick persons passed through (?) cairn and dipped in adjoining well ; pins, rags or stones offered

Bonfire at Wake : subse- quent squirrel-hunt - Children erect bonfire -

LOCALITY.

Lanes. (Poulton Green).

Do. (Carlton le Fylde).

Do. (Stonyhill, near Blackpool).

Do. (Hardhorn near Poulton).

Derbyshire (Duf&eld). Leic. (Godeby).

(c) Cakes.

A cake made (All Saints' Eve) for every member of the family, 1790 - - -

" Har-cake " eaten

" Thar-cake," ist Monday in November -. .

" Parkin Sunday," ist Sun- day in November

Seed cakes given ploughmen to celebrate completion of wheat-sowing, 17th cent. -

Ditto, called " seblet cakes," ^ about 1800 - - -

Cakes sent to friends, called " soul-cakes " -

Cakes hawked, called All Holland cakes - - -

Ripon.

Lanes. (Oldham).

Lanes.

West Ridins:.

Essex, Suftolk, Oxon. (Ambrosden), Wilts.?, Yorks.

Northants.

Ibid.

Hants.

'Seblet, a sower's basket.