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Catalogue of Brand Material.
Nuts eaten (Rhyme: "Crack nuts and cry Yule ! ")
(A) Feeding Animals.
Cattle better fed during Christmastide - - -
Hay instead of straw, Christ- mas morning - - -
Extra food, Christmas Eve -
Sheaf of unthrashed oats apiece, Christmas [Eve] midnight - - - -
Ditto, or Christmas morning
" Mell " (last sheaf in har- vest) given to best cow
" Neck " (last sheaf) given to master bullock, Christmas Eve - . - .
Sheaf put out for birds
Wheatsheaf hung outside church - - - -
Poultry had double feed
Plum-pudding given to horses, dog, and cat, before eating, for year's luck
" No Christian would turn a dog out at Christmas ' '
LOCALITY.
East Riding.
Salop.
Herei.
Lines., Devon (Hartland).
North Riding.
S. Yorksh., Cumbd.
Cumbd.
Cornwall. E. Anglia.
Yorksh. (Ackworth). Cheshire (New Brighton), circa 1820-50.
Norfolk (Terrington St. John).
Northants.
(i) I. Wassailing {i.e. Health-drinking).
I. Wassailing or " Worsling " Orchards ; (" apple-howl- ing " or " holloing "). By owner and household, Christmas Eve or Old Christmas Eve
By parishioners in procession By strolling bands of men,
during Christmastide Ditto, on New Year's Eve -
Ditto, on Old Twelfth Day
Herefdsh., W. Somerset,
Devon, Dorset. S. Devon, Cornwall ( 1 824) .
Devon, Somerset, Wilts. Surrey (Anstead Brook,
Haslemere), Sussex,
Kent. Somerset (Rowdon).
