The Every Day Book, Or, A Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular Amusements, Sports, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times, Band 1W. Tegg, 1866 - 1711 Seiten |
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... called Handsel Monday in some parts of Scotland , and is observed by merry inaking . In sir J. Sinclair's " Statistical Account , " it is related of one William Hunter , a collier , that he was cured in the year 1758 of an inveterate ...
... called Handsel Monday in some parts of Scotland , and is observed by merry inaking . In sir J. Sinclair's " Statistical Account , " it is related of one William Hunter , a collier , that he was cured in the year 1758 of an inveterate ...
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... called to ner , and asked what she carried , she answered oil , which she had bought ; but St. Genevieve seeing the devil sitting on the bottle , blew upon it , and the bottle broke , but the saint blessed the oil , and caused her to ...
... called to ner , and asked what she carried , she answered oil , which she had bought ; but St. Genevieve seeing the devil sitting on the bottle , blew upon it , and the bottle broke , but the saint blessed the oil , and caused her to ...
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... called lambs ' - wool , and the night on which it is used to be drunk ( generally on the twelfth eve ) was commonly called Wassil eve . " The glossary to the Ex- more dialect has " Watsail - a drinking song on twelfth - day eve ...
... called lambs ' - wool , and the night on which it is used to be drunk ( generally on the twelfth eve ) was commonly called Wassil eve . " The glossary to the Ex- more dialect has " Watsail - a drinking song on twelfth - day eve ...
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... called La Fête de Sans - Culottes ; the old feast was declared anti - civic ; and any priest keeping it was deemed a royalist . The Literary Pocket Book affirms , that at La Fête de Rois the French monarch and his nobles waited on the ...
... called La Fête de Sans - Culottes ; the old feast was declared anti - civic ; and any priest keeping it was deemed a royalist . The Literary Pocket Book affirms , that at La Fête de Rois the French monarch and his nobles waited on the ...
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... called Plough Monday , and appears to have received that name because it was the first day after Christmas that hus- bandmen resumed the plough . In some parts of the country , and especially in the north , they draw the plough in ...
... called Plough Monday , and appears to have received that name because it was the first day after Christmas that hus- bandmen resumed the plough . In some parts of the country , and especially in the north , they draw the plough in ...
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