Carols And Poems From the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time
Carols And Poems From the Fifteenth Century to the Present Time
Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry), 1857-1920
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When a piece of last year's Christmas log was preserved, the household reckoned itself secure from the assaults of hobgoblins, as Her- rick elsewhere relates- : " Kindle the Christmas brand, and then Till sunset let it burn ; Which quenched, then lay it up again Till Christmas next return. SftganEgsj&af^te^^ 266 NOTES. Part must be kept wherewith to teend The Christmas log next year; And where 'tis safely kept, the fiend Can do no mischief there. " Page 156 : " Wassail the trees" This custom wa...s kept up till the end of the last century. Brand relates that in 1790 a Cornish man informed him it was the custom for the Devonshire people on the eve of Twelfth Day to go after supper into the orchard with a large milk-pan full of cyder with roasted apples in it. Each person took what was called a clayen cup, i. E. An earthenware cup full of cyder, and standing under each of the more fruitful trees, sung " Health to thee, good apple-tree, Well to bear, pocket-fulls, hat-fulls, Peck-fulls, bushel-bag-fulls.
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