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Catalogue of Brand Material.
Women lift men, Monday ; men, women, Tuesday ^ -
Patients lifted :
horizontally (held by legs
and arms) - - - in the arms (or caught
round waist)
erect (held by the elbows and thrown forward to alight) - - - -
seated :
on the crossed hands in a chair, often deco- rated - - - Feet sprinkled with water by
bunch of flowers Maid will break crockery if not heaved - - -
Unlousing Day or Lousing Day
(Easter Monday) Girls formerly lifted in chair
and kissed . . -
Young men privileged to kiss
girls and thereby " un-
louse " or release them -
LOCALITY.
port, Alderley, Bar- thomley. Mow Cop villages), Staffs, (esp. Black Country), Salop (all parts), Herefordsh. (no special locality), Wore. (Alvechurch), Warwickshire.
Lanes. (Manchester,
Bolton, Ashton-under- Lyne), Cheshire (Knuts- ford, Warrington),
Wore. (Worcester, Har- tlebury) .
Manchester (1784).
Warrington, Country.
Black
Cleveland.
Black Country.
Salop, Cheshire.
South Salop, Herefsh
Salop (Tong). Wore. (Hartlebury).
N. Derbyshire.
ibid. (W^ormliill) .
ibid. (Hathersage, Baslow, Bamford).
1 This statement requires close examination. In the case {e.g.) of Manchester, it is contradicted by the evidence of residents ; in some other cases it does not rest on that of eye-witnesses. At Ashton-under-l.yne it is unlikely that the men engaged in riding the "Black Lad" (see below) should at the same time have been subject to the attention of the "heavers."
