FTX-199 - BELIEFS & CUSTOMS
THE GAMES WE PLAY - 2
| Continuing the selection made by Peter Opie: The first day of the month
- April Fool - May Goslings - Pinch-bottom Day - Ash Wednesday - Hampshire
& Sussex - Kissing Good Friday - Liverpool Judas - dumping eggs - hot
cross buns - Westmoreland Pace-egg Play - Christmas begging - May Day queens,
garlands, maypoles - Manchester - continent - cob- coaling - bonfires -
"chumping" in Yorkshire - "chubbing" - Mischief Night - Molly-dancers -
St James's Grottoes - fortune-telling - stones - bus tickets - colours -
exam charms - birthdays - ladders - ambulances - animals - Scandinavian
examples - horse-shoes - a lump of coal by burglars - cigarette packets
- funerals - Cypriots - curing warts - folklore in its infancy |
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HERE'S TWO OR THREE JOLLY BOYS - WHO STOLE THE COOKIES?
- SHE SAT 'NEATH THE LILACS - MARY WAS A BAD GIRL - FOUND A PEANUT - WHEN I
WAS ONE - UNDER THE BRAMBLE BUSHES - BILLY BOY - WENT INTO A BAKER'S SHOP -
MY MOTHER IS A BAKER - I SAW MY BOY FRIEND - ORANGE BELLS - GOING TO TURKEY
- THERE CAME A JEWSEY - SEE SEE MY PLAINSYS - UNDER THE BRIAR - WENT TO THE
CHINESE RESTAURANT - SPACEMAN SAYS - WHO STOLE THE SHOE - DANCING BLUEBELLS
- SLEEPING PRINCESS
