Yesterday's #wassailing.
Led by the #Eynsham #Morris, villagers processed through the orchard banging pots and pans to scare evil spirits, and singing to wake the apple trees and encourage them to produce a good harvest.
Spicy cider was readily available to everyone present, warmed on a roaring fire. And toast was hung in the trees - a gift for the good spirits. The birds will be pleased. 😀
Long may this ancient #folktradition continue!
Vintage Postcard Folklore a wedding in the Moors After forgiveness the New Year's gifts Marriage
#VintagePostcard #AntiquePostcard #Folklore #TraditionalWedding #MoorlandCulture #RuralTraditions #MarriageCeremony #FolkCustoms #NewYearsGifts
Vintage Postcard Folklore a wedding in the Moors After forgiveness the New Year's gifts Marriage www.cpaphil.com/en/p... #VintagePostcard #AntiquePostcard #Folklore #TraditionalWedding #MoorlandCulture #RuralTraditions #MarriageCeremony #FolkCustoms #NewYearsGifts
For a different take on English winter animal #guising #folkcustoms (not quite #mummers, #mumming, #mummering, nor even #marilwyd ... but sort of related, back in antiquity), here's the performance list for a team in the #Whitstable / #Faversham / #HerneBay area.
@hoodeners That's so cool! I like very much how the spirit of the horse lives on in so many #folkcustoms and ancient #folktraditions
We are very excited to share that tickets for our live event at Boscobel house are now available to purchase via the English Heritage website! We would love to see some of you there! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/whats-... #history #folklore #Shropshire #boscobel #folktales #folkcustoms
I've been baking soul cakes for the living and for the dead today. Mine are simple, rustic-looking things but made with love. I wrote about their importance in Shropshire over on the blog -
https://nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2023/10/hallowmas-traditions-in-shropshire.html
A bit of fun for a Friday... Last week we went to #AbbotsBromley, #Staffordshire, to witness the extraordinary & ancient #HornDance, a #FolkDance that has taken place for perhaps 800+ years. I've wanted to see this for years!
One of the reindeer antlers has been radio carbon dated to 1065CE.
#FolkCustoms #TraditionalDance #MorrisDancing #folkyfriday #ancienttraditions #FolkloreSunday #FolkTradition #oldways
Mari Lwyd, Chepstow
Chepstow Wassail and Mari Lwyd. Wassail!
Fantastic to see the wassail back in Chepstow today to bring in the New Year, the blessing of the orchard and the Mari Lwyd.
40 seconds of Morris for your enjoyment.
"Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wandering
So fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too;
And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year
And God send you a Happy New Year."
#FolkCustoms #Wassail #Chepstow #FolkDancing #Morris #MariLwyd
Another old #Austrian #tradition are #Barbarazweigerl - #twigs (Zweige or, diminutive, Zweigerl) from the #garden cut on St. Barbara’s Day (4 Dec) and brought into the house. They are meant to flower by #Christmas. The vase is #GmundnerKeramik.
Upright. Click to see all.
#Barbara #rustic #wolfkettler #photography #wiltshire #winter #traditional #customs #folkcustoms #Austria
Sat 29/4 at #Maidstone Museum: #folkcustoms inc. #autohoodening, talks by @thefolklorepodcast & artist #BenEdge, etc. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60quA_gNy0 for previous curator's tour inc. #BroadstairsFolkWeek #hoodenhorse herd…
Ac oherwydd fy mod i ar y gweinydd'ma:
Dydd Sadwrn yn #Amgueddfa yng Nghaint: traddodiadau gwerin, sgyrsiau gan celfydd ac ati. Gwyliwch y fideo am daith curadur flaenorol (Saesneg)…
#freeevent #freeentry #folklorethursday #hoodening @folklorethursday @folklore @EFDSS
New blogpost about wassailing
https://dowsingfordivinity.com/2023/01/15/wassailing-3/
#wassailing #wassail #applewassail #folklore #folktraditions #folkcustoms #folkloreThursday
New blogpost about wassailing
https://dowsingfordivinity.com/2023/01/15/wassailing-3/
#wassailing #wassail #applewassail #folklore #folktraditions #folkcustoms #folkloreThursday
New blogpost about wassailing
https://dowsingfordivinity.com/2023/01/15/wassailing-3/
#wassailing #wassail #applewassail #folklore #folktraditions #folkcustoms #folkloreThursday
Happy Plough Monday!
"For Plough Monday was the day when village life in many agricultural areas focused on the dragging of a decorated plough, sometimes a real one but often just a replica, around a community by bands of young men who would knock on doors and ask for money, food or drink. These men were [known as Plough Stotts in the North East]"
via @EFDSS
No sign of a plough or Plough Stotts in Whitley Bay sadly!
Perfect Boxing Day, out to Grenoside for the famed longsword and mulled wine, then the race over to Dungworth for the last Royal village carols of the year. All on a bright blue day. Hope you’re having a good day, wherever you are. #folk #folkcustoms #tradition #grenoside #dungworth #longsword #villagecarols #sheffield #ritual
A 'Lost' Christmas Custom of the North:
"They haven't gone guising here for a long time," said the old folk of Cambo in 1922.
"There was no 'guisering' at Christmas 1903," wrote Hastings Neville in Ford in his notes of that year.
'Guising' (apparently derived from 'disguising', referring to the costumes and masks worn) was the local version of the Mummers Plays that exist elsewhere.
In both Ford, in the far north of the county, and Cambo, 40 miles to the south, we have records of the old custom, which happened in the days leading up to Christmas. Both apparently involved the key character of a doctor, but in Ford, Revd Neville has preserved the entirety of the script, including 'King George', a young hero, Goliath, and a battle, and finishing with the rhyme:
"Your bottles are full of whisky,
Your barrels are full of beer,
I wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year."
Neville puts the dying of the custom down to the reduction of young people in the villages in an age of increased mechanisation and rural depopulation. But when I was growing up in Northumberland in the 1990s, 'guising' was what we called Trick or Treating at Halloween! Maybe it hasn't so much died as shifted.
#FolkHistory #LocalHistory #Folklore #FolkCustoms #Traditions #Christmas #Midwinter #ChristmasTraditions #RuralTradition #History #Northumberland #Mummers
