Catalogue of Brand Material.
Servants allowed best cider
LOCALITY.
while it lasted
Norfolk (Mulbarton).
Family and servants took
meals together
Norfolk.
Spovis.
Dancing round the fire in
hall ... -
Inns of Court, 1740.
" Leaping over a Christmas
Eve bonefire "
Chester (Randle Holme,
1627-99).
Kept aligU>
Till Twelfth Day -
Salop.
All the week -'
Lines. (1773).
Part kept for New Year's Eve Lines, (modem).
A little burnt every night
till New Year
Notts.
All night and next day -
Northumbd., Lanes. (The
Fylde).
All night; any left, re-
lighted Old Christmas
Eve - - - .
Yorks. (Richmond, Peni-
All night
Remnant preserved to light next year's log Also to preserve house from fire
To pieserve house from
other harm - To preserve house from
" fire and lightning " - " To keep the witch away "
Foi luck - - - -
Kept under bed
Kept in cellar -
Ashes kept underneath
milk-bench - Bit thrown into burning
house will check fire
stone). Derby, Stafis. (Cheadle),
Northants, Worcest., Cornwall.
General.
Whitby, Cornwall.
Northants.
Northumberland.
Herefordshire.
South Yorks. (Penistone),
Notts.
Derby, Herefordshire.
North Country, Whitby.
Northants., 1850.
South Yorks. (Penistone).
North Country (Denham) ^ The change from open hearths to grates would naturally affect both the size of the log and the time it would be kept burning.
