Catalogue of Brand Material.
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EASTER DAY.
ENGLAND.
I. Names.
Goddes Sondaie (i6th century). Holy Sunday . - . Goodfeast Day Paste-egg Day Bowl-egg Sunday Rive-Kite Sunday
II. Natural Phenomena.
Coincidence with Lady-Day portentous. Weather governs year's weather,
harvest-weather, Wliitsuntide
weather, etc. The sun dances on rising
LOCALITY.
Sussex.
Yorks. (Hornsea).
Northumberland.
Rochdale.
Hull.
No one can see it, as the Devil hides it - _ . .
It trembles - - - . It whirls round and jumps A lamb is seen in it - Its rays are Jacob's ladder It is double _ - . .
Apparitions seen in Waters.
St. Austin's Well
The Mermaid's Pool - - - Lent lilies (daffodils) presage death
if brought into the house before
Easter - . . . . A lamb seen on rising on Easter
Day brings luck - . . Birds spoil old clothes. Ring made of silver offered at
Easter cures fits - . .
Northumb., Durham, Yorks., Lines., Nor- folk, Derbysh., Staffs., Salop, Herefordsh., So- merset, Devon, Corn- wall, Sussex.
Sussex.
Salop (Titterstone, Clee).
Devon.
Devon, Somerset.
Lines.
East Riding.^
Dorset (Cerne). Derbysh. (Kinderscout).
Cornwall.
Devon ? General.
Berks.
- Qy. authority ?
