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Catalogue of B^'and Material.
III. General Observances.
(a)
Early Rising. High places visited to see sunrise.
LOCALITY.
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Peak Castle Hill Dartmoor Tors The Mendips - - - Wrekin and Titterstone -
Ditty used to rouse men- servants - - - -
To see a lamb on first rising betokens lucky marriage -
To visit every room in the house before breaking the fast secures housewife from troubles during the year -
Clothes.
Unlucky not to wear new clothes - - - -
Birds will clothes
drop upon old
Crows or rooks drop upon old clothes (probably the same bird is meant) - - -
Birds' dropping brings luck - Young man must give his
Valentine gloves A lucky day to change babies'
caps . . - .
Fire. Fires in houses extinguished Easter Eve . . - New fire made in churches (pre-Reformation) -
Fire and light not given out of house - - - -
Derbyshire. Devon. Somerset. Salop.
Devon (Staverton).
Yorkshire.
(Qy. locality and autho- rity ?).
Cumb., Westm., Yorks. (Richmond, Whitby), Lines. (Boston), Suf- folk, South Staffs.
Northumb., Westm.,
Lines. (Grantham),
Norfolk, Lanes.
Northumb., Cumb.,
Yorks. (E. Riding), Cheshire, Salop.
Yorks. (Cleveland).
Devon, Oxon. Yorks.
Leic. (1611).
Leicester, Reading, Westminster.
Staffs. (19th cent.).
