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Catalogue of Brand Material.

men and women. Apples given. Welsh words intro- duced into English ditty -

Children say (in Welsh) they " ask for food as messen- gers of the dead." Coins, apples, or bread and butter given - - _ -

Nov. I. (All SS.). Seed cakes distributed, poor prayed for next year's crop

Nov. I. Women and children begged for barley cakes, called solod. Apples oi bread and cheese might be given. Welsh ditty

Nov. I. Children begged for bread and cheese, called hava chawse. Different ditty (Welsh) -

Oct. 31 and Nov. i. Children and old women. Different ditty (Welsh) -

Nov. 2. All Souls' Day. Barley bread baked at farmhouses and given with cheese to the poor -

Nov. 2. All Souls' Day. Bread, called bara ran or dole bread, begged for souls of departed by " poor of every persuasion " -

English Souling ditty sung at end of Christmas Carols -

" Gwrachod " (hags), masked men, went about in sheep-

Montgomeryshire (Llan- yblodwel, 1893). Os- westr\' (Shropshire, 1894), English Border.

Denbighshire (Llangwm, Llantihangel, G.M., Cerrig-y-druidion).

Denbighsh. (Llanasaph).

Merionethshire (Corwen, 1855).

Merionetlishire (Dinas INIawddwy, 1850).

Cardiganshire (Llandy- feiliog).

Pembrokeshire (Laug- harne, 1883).

Monmouthshire, 1801

Monmouthshire (New- port, IQIl).