Catalogue of Bj^and Material.
20I
WHITSUNTIDE.
ENGLAND.
I. Name.
Gaping or Gawping Saturday (the locality.
Saturday in Whit-week) - - Manchester.
II. General Observances.
(a) Things forbidden or unlucky. To cut nails on Whit Monday
brings ill-luck in love - Locality ?. (6) Things enjoined.
To wear new clothes - - Yorks. (E Riding).
Yorks. (W. Riding, Bol- ton b}^ Bowland).
Yorks. (Cleveland), Corn- wall. Sultolk.
Oxford (Middle Ages). South Salop (Severn
Valley). Warwickshire (Wootten
Wawen, i8th cent.).
,, otherwise the birds will foul you - - -
for luck ...
(c) Viands prescribed. Dole of milk given
Milk, clotted cream, junkets,
cream-cake . - -
Cheesecakes . . -
Custards
First gooseberry pie
Norfolk, N. (Arkengarth-
Cornwall.
Durham, Yorks. dale) .
Suffolk.
Suffolk, Staffs., Cheshire, Salop, Herefordshire, Gloucestershire, Mid- dlesex.
Cakes (Aubrey).
Cakes made with layers of
paste, sugar and spices - Lines. [d) Observances with Plants.
Chaplets of roses worn (Chaucer, qy. ref. ?). Hazel wands carried in Club
procession - - - Sussex (Harting)
Beech-boughs marked out
highway - - - - Sussex (Harting)
