Catalogue of Brand Alaterial.
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Small dolls put in it Lighted up with candles
Hung from centre of ceiling, mistletoe suspended from it - - . .
Used without mistletoe before introduction of railways and carried kissing privileges -
Mistletoe bough itself bedecked - - .
Bunch of furze stuck with floured berries used
Evergreens taken down. Mistletoe left hanging till
next year. Frame of Christmas Bunch
kept for luck Holly and ivy, etc., taken
down Twelfth, or " Old
Christmas " Day -
Holly and iw, etc., taken down Candlemas Eve
Holly and ivy, etc., taken down Shrove Tuesday
Holly and ivy, etc., taken down Good Friday
Must be burnt - - -
Burnt in fire that fries pan- cakes - - - - Unlucky to bum them
Must be thrown away
Some kept all the year as safeguard against light- nine - - - -
LOCALITY.
Lines. (Bottesford).
Ijncs. (Bottesford, Ep- worth), Cheshire, Corn- wall.
General.
Cleveland, Lines., South Notts., Cheshire.
Wore.
Devon (Hartland), Corn- wall.
Derbysh. (1850).
Cheshire, Sheffield, East Cornwall, London.
Salop, Herefsh., Devon.
Lanes. (?).
Yorksh. {Gent. Mag.
(1811). Salop (Little Wenlock),
Herefordshire, Wore.
Lanes. (?).
Lines., Cheshire, Staffs. (Need wood, Tutbury), East Cornwall.
Cheshire, Staffs. (Tut- bury).
Needwood .
