92
Catalog2ie of Brand Material.
Collected by the parish clerk as part of the parson's Easter dues
(Farmers' wives still pre- sent the parson with eggs.)
LOCALITY.
Denbighshire, etc.
III. Local Observances.
Throwing keys or pins into St.
Catherine's Well - - - Criccieth. Throwing a crooked pin into the
Pinwell, " to throw Lent away " Pembrokeshire (Gum-
frey ston) . Music, and distribution of doles on
hillside ----- Llandrillo, near Bala.
Playing ball in the castle grounds Conway.
EASTER MONDAY.
I. Name.
" Everybody's Monday " (authority,
Hazlitt). " Pull-ye, haul-ye " Monday and
Tuesday - - - - -
II. General Observances.
Visiting Wells ; scattering flowers and drawing water, for luck
Setting up a decorated birch-bough on the churchyard cross ; watch- ing it to guard against thieves -
Dancing round an oak-tree (obs.) - " Lifting " or " heaving " women three times in a chair, and kiss- ing them - - - - -
Montgom. (Llan- santffraid).
Glamorganshire, Carmar- thenshire.
Glamorganshire (Llan-
dundwyd, etc.). South Wales.
North Wales generally, Glamorganshire (1701- 1741).
III. Special Local Observance.
" The Parish Clerk's Meeting " [i.e. tea-party) - - - -
Feast at Well (drinking sugar and water) - - - .
Tenby and Gumfreyston Montgom. (Llanerfyl).
