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''First-Foot in the British Isles.

Locality and

Complexion,

Period, if other than present

etc., of Person preferred as

Se.x and Age

Reference.

Authority.

Remarks.

day.

" First- Foot".

Malvern, 1S77. .

-

Boy

Mrs. Gutch

Letter from friend.

Northallerton. .

Man

Master of the house used to go out few minutes before,, and re-enter few- minutes after midnight on Dec. 31st.

Lancashire

Dark

Boy ^

Worcester and

Boy

_

Chimneys used to-

Herefordshire.

be swept New Year's Day for this purpose.

Cornwall. . ..

Boy

>

Mrs. Gutch

Standard, ist Jan. 1879.

Used to sand door- step and passage " for luck".

Preston .. ..

Fair

—

Blackburn

Dark

-

Midland

Dark

A widower ob-

Counties.

jected to.

W. England. .

—

Unusual name ob- jected to, as it prefigured the husband's name.

Yorkshire. . ..

Dark

-

( Mrs. Gutch ( E. Clodd

Morris, Voj-ks.

Folk- talk,

2i8-iq.

M

Fair

-

( Mrs. Gutch \ E. Clodd

-

In other districts

Isle of Man ..

Dark

—

E. Clodd

Moore, Folk- lore Isle 0/ Man, 102-3.

E. Yorkshire. .

Dark

Man

"

Nicholson, F. L. East Yorks., 20.

Called "lucky bird".

Bradwell. . ..

Light-haired

Man

Miss Broad-

Letter from

Red-haired man,.

(Northumb.)

and flat-footed.

wood.

Miss Craster.

or one with eye- brows joined, ob- jected to.

N. England. .

Man

C. J. Clark

Letter from Mrs.Lawrence Archer.

Women cannot get out a house till a man has come in on New Year's Day.

Aldeburgh

—

Man

E. Clodd

—

(Suffolk)

Carnarvon

Dark

Man

T.W. E. Higgens

-

Leuchars, Fife

Red hair and

W. Anderson

Letterto W. A.

See Letter, p. 256.

Jlat foot

(Leuchars)

Craigie,

avoided.

Merton Coll., Oxford.

Forfarshire

-

Women not objected to.

"

'•

Athlone, 1854 ..

—

Young

Rev. J. Ed-

Letter to Prof.

women (?)

mington.

Rhys.

Craven, Yorks..

Fair

Man.

Mrs. F. L. Nicholson

Information

from

Mrs. Slingsby.