[114] See p. 252.

[115] "Ope thy purse, and shut it then."

[116] It is probable that some customs practised at the Epiphany belong
in reality to Christmas Day, Old Style.

[117] _Pasqua_ is there used for great festivals in general, not only for
Easter.

[118] The custom of "burning the bush," still surviving here and there in
Herefordshire, shows a certain resemblance to this. The "bush," a
globe made of hawthorn, hangs throughout the year in the farmhouse
kitchen, with the mistletoe. Early on New Year's Day it "is carried
to the earliest sown wheat field, where a large fire is lighted, of
straw and bushes, in which it is burnt. While it is burning, a new
one is made; in making it, the ends of the branches are scorched in
the fire." Burning straw is carried over twelve ridges of the
field, and then follow cider-drinking and cheering. (See Leather,
"Folk-Lore of Herefordshire," 91 f.)

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