Catilog7ic of Brand Materia/.
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To give a dog a lamb-bone (it will go mad) - - -
LOCALITY.
South Wales.
{h) Things enjoined or recommended.
To rise before the sun and ascend a height. The people gave three somersaults -
The last married man pro- claimed the hour of ris- ing overnight ; delin- quents were put in the stocks, questioned, and their right hands coated with mud. Girls have to give a kiss or a shoe -
Youths in the stocks (as above) had a leg held up and a pail of water poured down it -
The victim's hand was
beaten with a branch of
gorse - - - -
To wear something new :
else the birds would spoil
your clothes - - -
To sing carols (obs.)
(c) Special Viands.
Eggs at every meal
" Yellow " cake (a sort of
seed cake) - - - Servants have an egg with
breakfast Everything cooked must
have eggs in it
[d) Easter Eggs.
Collected by children with rhyme and clapper -
Denbighshire gollen) .
(Llan-
Carnarvonshire(Conway).
Bangor and Carnarvon (1732).
Glamorgan.
General. North Wales.
English Border. English Border. West Denbighshire. English Border.
North Wales (Anglesey, Carnarvonshire, Den- bighshire) .
