254
First-Foot in the British Isles.
Locality and
Complexion,
Period, if other than present
etc., of Person preferred as
Se.x and Age
Reference.
Authority.
Remarks.
day.
" First- Foot".
Malvern, 1S77. .
-
Boy
Mrs. Gutch
Letter from friend.
Northallerton . .
Man
Master of the house used to go out few minutes before,, and re-enter few- minutes after midnight on Dec. 31st.
Lancashire
Dark
Boy ^
Worcester and
Boy
_
Chimneys used to-
Herefordshire.
be swept New Year's Day for this purpose.
Cornwall . . . .
Boy
>
Mrs. Gutch
Standard, ist Jan. 1879.
Used to sand door- step and passage " for luck".
Preston .. ..
Fair
—
Blackburn
Dark
-
Midland
Dark
A widower ob-
Counties.
jected to.
W. England . .
—
Unusual name ob- jected to, as it prefigured the husband's name.
Yorkshire . . . .
Dark
-
( Mrs. Gutch ( E. Clodd
Morris, Voj-ks.
Folk- talk,
2i8-iq.
M
Fair
-
( Mrs. Gutch \ E. Clodd
-
In other districts
Isle of Man ..
Dark
—
E. Clodd
Moore, Folk- lore Isle 0/ Man, 102-3.
E . Yorkshire . .
Dark
Man
"
Nicholson, F. L. East Yorks., 20.
Called "lucky bird".
Bradwell . . . .
Light-haired
Man
Miss Broad-
Letter from
Red-haired man,.
(Northumb.)
and flat-footed.
wood.
Miss Craster.
or one with eye- brows joined, ob- jected to.
N. England . .
Man
C. J. Clark
Letter from Mrs.Lawrence Archer.
Women cannot get out a house till a man has come in on New Year's Day.
Aldeburgh
—
Man
E. Clodd
—
(Suffolk)
Carnarvon
Dark
Man
T.W. E. Higgens
-
Leuchars, Fife
Red hair and
W. Anderson
Letterto W. A.
See Letter, p. 256.
Jlat foot
(Leuchars)
Craigie,
avoided.
Merton Coll., Oxford.
Forfarshire
-
Women not objected to.
"
'•
Athlone, 1854 ..
—
Young
Rev. J. Ed-
Letter to Prof.
women (?)
mington.
Rhys.
Craven, Yorks..
Fair
Man.
Mrs. F. L. Nicholson
Information
from
Mrs. Slingsby.
