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To send away mummers or
wassailers unrewarded on
Christmas Eve To permit a woman to be the
first comer to the house on
Christmas morning - To turn a feather-bed or
mattress ; it will change
the " luck " - - - It will cause the death of
the occupant of the bed - To do any work on Christmas
Day " - - - - To marry on that day Three weddings on Christmas
Day will cause a death
within the year To sit down an odd number at
Christmas dinner or supper
LOCALITY.
West Riding.
North Country. 1
Norfolk.
South Yorksb. ?
(Locality ?) Yorksh.2
Suffolk. North Riding.
{d) Christmas Evergreens.
Houses and chuiches adorned with evergreens
Evergreens called " Christ- mas " -
Put up on Christmas Eve, or early Christmas Day
Unlucky to take them into house sooner -
Unlucky in bedchambers Stuck in window-panes Churches " stuck " with boughs of holly and ivy set in small holes bored in pews. Prob. obsolete
General.
Lanes., Cheshire, Salop, Somerset, Hants, etc.
General.
Staffs., Salop, Herefsh., Glos., Devon, Rutland, etc.
Lines, (nr. Grantham).
General.
General: e.g. Yorksh., Lines, (nr. Grantham), Derbysh. (Castleton), Staffs. (Norbury), Salop (Edgmond), S.W.Wilts.
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-Ecclesiastically prohibited, Advent to Hilary term.
