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Catalogue of Brand Material.
Kept as safeguard against locality.
evil spirits - - - Cornwall (some parts). A ghost seen for every leaf
left - - . - Cornwall (some parts). To throw them away will
cause a death - - Cornwall.
Given to the milch cows - Salop (Edgmond).
[e) Five and Light.
No fire must be stntck, given, or borrowed, during Christ- mastide ...
Light taken out of house between Christmas and New Year causes death in family
Yorks., Cheshire, Herefordshire.
Salop,
North Riding, Derby, Staffs.i (Stone).
Hearth fire not allowed to go
out during night of
Christmas Eve
North Country.
Log burnt on hearth-fire.
Called Yule log, clog, or
block - - - -
Northumbd.,
Yorks.,
Lanes., Lines.,
, Notts.,
Derby.
Called Christmas Brand, Brund, Bron, Braund, or Brawn - - - -
Called Christmas Block -
Called Christmas Block, Stock or Mock ^ - Claimed as " estovers " (fuel) by tenants of manors -
Presented by lord of manor Presented by carpenters',
joiners' or " wrights' "
to customers
Salop, Worcestersh.,
Somerset, Dorset,
Devon, Cornwall.
Lines., Derby, North- ants, Essex.
Cornwall.
Essex (17th cent.,
Hainault Forest). Northumbd. (Belford).
Northumbd. (Rothbury), N. Yorks. (Cleveland, Whitby), E. Yorks
Between Christmas and Candlemas.
'* Mock " in allusion to practice of depicting human figure on it ?
