Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 28, 1917.djvu/465

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Catalogue of Brand Material.

431

When Christmas has been let in, family go out umvashed and return carrying evergreens

Little boys run about shout- ing Christmas greetings and receive gifts - They sing rhymes, for gifts

Lucky to " let in Christmas," i.e. to be the first to open the house-door (from within) and say, " Wel- come, Christmas." (No Lucky Bird enters.)

East Riding.

Whitby, Salop. Sheffield, Lancashire.

West Sussex.

Erratum, p. 303,

For Dorset, read Devon.

C. 8. BURNE.

(To be coitinucd.)