Observations on Popular Antiquities
Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies and Superstitions

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Preface
New Year's Eve
New Year's Day
Twelfth Night
St. Agnes's Day or Eve, Jan. 21st
St. Vincent's Day, Jan. 22d
St. Paul's Day, Jan. 25th
Candlemas Day, Feb. 2d
St. Blaze's Day, Feb. 3d
Valentine's Day, Feb. 14th
Collop or Shrove Monday
Shrove-tide, or Shrove Tuesday
Ash-Wednesday
St. David's Day, March 1st
St. Patrick's Day, March 17th
Mid-Lent Sunday
Palm Sunday
All Fool's Day, April 1st
Shere Thursday, also Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter Eve
Easter Day
Easter eggs
Easter holidays
Lifting on Easter holidays
Hoke Day
St. George's Day, April 23d
St. Mark's Day or Eve
Parochial perambulations in Rogation Week. Ascension Day or Holy Thursday
May Day customs
May Poles
Morris dancers
St. Urban's Day, May 25th
Royal Oak Day, May 29th
Whitsuntide
Trinity, or Trinity Sunday, Even.
Eve of Thursday after Trinity Sunday
St. Barnabas Day, June 11th
St. Vitus's Day, June 15th
Corpus Christi Day, and Plays, June 14th
Summer Solstice. Midsummer Eve. The Vigil of St. John the Baptist's Day
St. Peter's Day, June 29th
St. Ulric, July 4th
St. Swithin's Day, July 15th
St. Margaret's Day, July 20th
St. Bridget, July 23d
St. James's Day, July 25th
Gule of August, commonly called Lammass Day
Assumption of the Virgin Mary, August 15th
St. Roch's Day, August 16th
St. Bartholomew's Day, August 24th
Holy-Rood-Day, Septemb. 14th
Michaelmas, Septemb. 29th
St. Ethelburgh's Day, October 11th
St. Simon and St. Jude's Day, October 28th
Allhallow Even.
The Fifth of November
Martinmas, Novemb. 11th
Queen Elizabeth's accession, Novemb. 17th
St. Clement's Day, Novemb. 23d
St. Catharine's Day, Novemb. 24th
St. Andrew's Day, Novemb. 30th
St. Nicholas's Day, Decemb. 6th
On the montem at Eton
Customs a little before, at, or about Christmas
Of the Yule clog, or block, burnt on Christmas Eve
Of the word Yule, formerly used to signify Christmas
Sports, games, etc. at Christmas
St. Stephen's Day, Decemb. 26th
St. John the Evangelist, Decemb. 27th
Childermas or Holy Innocents' Day
Country wakes, called also feasts of dedication, revellings, rush-bearings, and in the north of England hoppings
Harvest home, alias Mell Supper, Kern or Churn supper, or Feast of Ingathering
The feast of sheep shearing
Saturday afternoon
The borrowed days
Days lucky or unlucky
Cock crowing, time of the morning so called
Strewing churches with flowers on days of humiliation and thanksgiving
Cock-fighting
Bull-running in the town of Stamford
Additions to Vol. 1.