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    Festivals and Feast Days of Lincolnshire (Folklore History Series)
    Festivals and Feast Days of Lincolnshire (Folklore History Series)
    Festivals and Feast Days of Lincolnshire (Folklore History Series)
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    Festivals and Feast Days of Lincolnshire (Folklore History Series)

    By Mabel Peacock

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    Part of a series on the county folklore and festivals of the United Kingdom, this remarkable and well researched book on the festival customs and feast day practices all drawn from the voices of the people who took part in them. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473352322
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      Festivals and Feast Days of Lincolnshire (Folklore History Series) - Mabel Peacock

      SECTION I.

      FESTIVALS.

      New Year.—If the first person who enters a house on New-year’s morning bring bad news, it is a sign of ill-luck for the whole of the year. As soon as the clock strikes twelve on New-year’s morning bring something indoors, for it is lucky to have some incoming before there is any outgoing.—E. PEACOCK, i., 179.

      Bring a bit of green into the house on New-year’s day, and you won’t want bread all the year; or, if you do, some one will bring you some. You must not bring in anything dead, or you bring a coffin into the house. Whatever you bring in first on New Year’s Day, you will never want all the year through, so the custom is to bring in coals or something useful.—COLE, p. 98.

      The New Year will be marked by death or ill-luck if fire be taken out of the house, or if nothing green be taken in, or if the first-foot be a woman or a fair man instead of a dark man.—Bygone Lincolnshire, ii., 94.

      The ‘first-foot’ belief of the Scotch on New Year’s Day does not come down so far as Lincolnshire, but we knew an old farmer and his niece who always took care on that day to be the first to leave the house, and to return with something in their hands—an egg, a flower, or piece of holly.—Antiquary, xiv., 12.

      Bottesford. Mr. Watkins is in error when he says that ‘the first-foot belief of the Scotch on New Year’s Day does not come down so far as Lincolnshire.’ An old friend of mine tells me that she would not on any account let a woman or girl enter her house before a man or boy had crossed the threshold on that day. ‘I alus keäp dōōr lock’d till reight soort cums, an’ then I saay, Hev’ yĕ owt to bring in? If yĕ hevn’t goa get a bit o’ stick or sum’ats, ye sea it’s straange an’ unlucky to tak things oot afore owt’s browt in, an’ foaks is careful. I mind th’ time when lads cum’d roond reg’lar wi’ bits o’ stick aboot as long as a knittin’ needle.’—Antiquary, xiv., 86.

      Lincolnshire Marsh. There is still many a house in Marshland where much is thought of the first-foot which crosses the threshold on the New Year’s morning; that first-foot must be a light-haired, fair-complexioned man. First-foot must bring something in with him, and on no account may anything be taken out of the house till something has been brought in:

      Take out, then take in; bad luck will begin.

      Take in, then take out, good luck comes about.

      HEANLEY, p. 7.

      Mumby. ‘We reckon to have a log on New Year’s Eve,’ remarked a parishioner, and my aunt at Lincoln, when I was staying there, said, ‘You must see first of all on a New Year’s morning, one of the opposite sex (not a member of your own family).’ Boys go round and wish the women a Happy New Year, adding ‘and I’ve brought you a bit of stick.’ Girls do the same to the men, and both expect rewards, in the shape of current coin. Many people are most particular to open a Bible first of all, saying that the verse the eye first rests on (or thumb touches) foretells what the new year will be. A piece of green is also to be brought in and placed in the Bible. It is very unlucky to see the new moon for the first time through glass. Whatever you do on New Year’s Day you’ll be doing all the year.—L. N. & Q., vol. ii., p. 139.

      New Year Ringings.—NORTH, pp. 226-232.

      Kyme. It is a trait of character which had not expired in the middle of the last century, that the lower classes pertinaciously retained the custom of converting most of the old festivals into a holiday. Thus William Hall, the Kyme water poet, who was born about that period says—‘I perfectly remember, old Mr. Anthony Peacock, uncle to the late Anthony Peacock, Esq. threatening to horsewhip Frank Pears, the tailor, because he would not go to mend the great mill (Engiven) sail-cloths on old Christmas day.’ In the present age it is scarcely known by the same class of people when old Christmas day arrives.—OLIVER (3), p. 4, footnote.

      Grantham. There was generally gaiety astir on Twelfth Night, the parting hour of Christmastide. We youngsters were once (perhaps twice) asked to a party where some of the amusement provided consisted in ‘drawing for characters.’ A bag filled with folded papers was handed round and each of us was invited to take one, which on being opened was found to be a roughly coloured print of Sir Tilbury Nogo, Miss Fanny Fanciful, or some such personage whose character we might assume, and to whose name we were called upon to answer for the rest of the evening, during which we ought to have paid especial respect to the boy or girl whose luck had made them King and Queen. I do not believe this was at all a Grantham custom at the time [in the Fifties] of which I speak, though it may have been so when our hostess (who had grand-children about her) was in her prime. G. J., June 29, 1878.

      Epiphany.—See HAXEY HOOD-GAME, PART II., SECTION III., GAMES.

      Addlethorpe.

      Addlethorpe Churchwarden’s Accounts, A.D. 1542.—OLDFIELD, p. 110.

      Holbeach.

      A Boake of the Stuffe in the Cheyrche of Holbeach [1547].—Church Furniture, p. 237.

      Leverton. Plough Light.—

      LEVERTON, p. 6.

      LEVERTON, p.

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