Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 29, 1918.djvu/84

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74

Catalogue of Brand Material.

Leaf from decorated box

cures toothache Unlucky not to give gratuity

(usually tc first-comers) -

(?) 6. Carol-singers called wassailers 1

LOCALITY.

Ditto.

Yorksh. (Richmond, Whit- by, Filey). Glos. (St. Briavel's). Hants. (West Meon). Norfolk (Yarmouth).

^According to Timers Telescope, 1820, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, and Twelfth Eve were the proper nights for carrying round the Wassail bowl, as then

  • ' yet retained in many places."

{To be continued.)