Catalogue of Brand Material. 379
THE SUNDAYS IN LENT.
Enumerated in Rhyme.
" Tid, Mid, Misera, locality.
Carling, Palm, and Paste-Egg
Day " - - - - - North of England.
FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT.
IRELAND.
Name and Observance.
" Chalk Sunday " (backs of bachelors and unmarried girls marked with chalk) - - - Limerick, Tipperary.
CHANNEL ISLANDS.
Names and Observance.
Le Dimanche des Brandons. Le Jour des Vitres (masks).
(Bonfires ; dancing round them ; torches carried and thrown about the fields) - - - Alderney and Guernsey.
FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT.
ENGLAND.
I. Names.
Midlent Sunday - - - - General.
Mothering Sunday - . - Devon, Gloucester, Here- fordshire, Lanes., Mon- mouthshire, Notts., Northants., South Sa- lop, South Staffs., Wor- cestershire.
Simnel, Simlin, or Simblin Sunday Lancashire.
Fag-pie Sunday - - - - Lanes. (Blackburn, Ros-
sendale).
Braggot Sunday - - - - Lanes. (Altcar, etc.).
