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Catalogue of Bj'and Material.
WALES.
I. Name.
LOCALITY.
II. Natural Phenomena.
The sun dances on rising A prayer offered at sunrise cannot fail to be granted
III. General Observances.
{a) Whit-Monday. Early rising. Sloth punished by the stocks - - - -
Whit-Monday. Farm - boys
roused villagers and tied
nettles to the doors of
sluggards . - -
(&) Pins thrown into certain
parishes for luck (c) House-to-house visitation.
Boy in girl's clothes adorned with flowers and leaves, taken about with songs to solicit gifts - - -
Girl, gaily dressed, taken in like manner. Both i8th cent. - - - .
{d) Morris-dancing.
9 men, a fool, and a man called Morgan, in woman's clothes, with blackened face. Sometimes also a Jack-in-the-Green -
1652. 1652.
South \^'ales.
South Wales. South Wales.
South Wales. South Wales.
South Wales.
SCOTLAND.
Observances.
Fairs and Perambulations.
Town gate adorned with flowers at
Fair - . . . . Dunbar.
Part of Marches ridden Whitsun- day, 1665, changed to third Monday in May, 1702, owing to Dunblane Whit Monday Fair - Peebles.
Marches ridden day after Whitsun- tide Fair, called Landsmark or Lange mark Day - - - Lanark.
