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Catalogue of Bi^and Material.
LOCALITY.
" Clipping the Church " carried out Wolverhampton,
mingham merly)
Pleasure Fairs held
(couples roll down Observatory Hill)
(" white cakes " sold) -
(biscuits sold)
(raffling) -
Bir-
and (for-
Painswick
(Glos.).
Halesowen (Salop), Heme
Bay , Newcastle-on-Tyne .
Greenwich.
Poulton le Fylde(Lancs.).
Norwich.
Penzance.
EASTER TUESDAY.
" Holly-bussing " (decorating village cross and dancing to music of clerk's fiddle) -
" Clerk's Ale ------
Football Contest ; " Uppies " (iron- workers) V." Downies " (sailors) - " Eakring Ball Play " (football) " Grandy Needles " (thread the needle) played in streets after " j erring pace- eggs " in Vicar's field - - - -
Fair (peal of bells rung) - - - -
Northumb. (Nether Wit- ton). Wilts. (Chiseldon).
Cumb. (Workington). Notts. (Eakring).
Westm. (Kendal). Devon (East Budleigh).
EASTER SUNDAY (WALES).
I. Natural Phenomena.
The sun dances at rising - - General.
Weather influences Whitsuntide
weather ----- General. Water drawn down stream in
silence before sunrise is proof
against witches and evil spirits - South Wales. Birth or baptism on Easter Day
fortunate ----- South Wales.
II. Observances.
(a) Things forbidden or deprecated. To step barefoot on the floor
on rising - - - - South Wales.
