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INDEX.
Valentine's (St.) Eve, 98
Valentines, 101
Valentine dealing, 105
Valentining, 105
Vessel Cup, 464
Vitus'(St.) Day, 311
Virgin Mary, Annunciation of, 180; Assumption of, 357 ; Nativity of, 372 ; Purification of, 54
Wad-Shooting, 489
Waits, 465, 485
Wakes Monday, 404
Wales, 35, 88, 113, 134, 158, 168, 177, 184, 222, 265, 289, 295,297, 320, 390, 398, 410, 425,445, 486, 496
Walk Money, 183
' Walking the Fair, 203
Walnut-tree,legendof a miraculous, 467
Ward Penny, 420
Warwickshire, 12,175, 300, 419, 443, 450
Wrath Money, 420
Wassail Bowl, 501
Wassail Eve, 23
Wassaile, 28
Wastel, the, 115
Watch Night, 501
Weaver, introduces the Pantomime, 461
Well-dressing, 211
Wesley Bob, 483
Westminster School, tossing the pancake at, 80
Westmoreland, 6, 35, 264, 415, 481
1 Wetting the Block, 119
Wheel, its origin, 454
Whip-dog Day, 387
Whipping Toms, 79
Whirlin Cakes, 123
Whirlin Sunday, 123
White Sunday, 183
White Thursday, 468
Whitsun Ale, 278
Whitsunday, 278
Whitsun Monday, 283
Whiten Mysteries, 283
Whitsuntide, 278, 281
Whitsun Tuesday, 290
Whitsun Tryste Fair, 282
4 Wigs/ a sort of Cake, 426
Wilfrid's (St.) Feast, 351
Wiltshire, 76, 133, 295, 309, 329, 415
Wives' Feast, 54
Worcestershire, 12, 157, 176, 188, 192, 215, 265, 306,319, 341,416, 428, 443, 482, 500
Wren, hunting of, 494
Wren-boys, 497
Wroth Money, 420
Wycoller Hall, Christmas at, 472
Yarrow, divination connected with, 273
Yew, Churches decorated with, on Good Friday, 156
Yorkshire, 12, 23, 43, 56, 87, 96, 110, 123, 133, 148, 157,160,167, 200, 209, 274, 299,320,329,33!, 333, 341, 351, 3G7,386, 398, 416, 420, 444, 451, 482, 496, 504
Yorkshire Hagmena Song, 14
Youling, 207
Yule, derivation of the term, 453
Yule of August, 347
Yule Babies, 476
Yule Candle, 451
Yule Clog, 452, 465
Yule Day, 487
Yule Log, 453, 465
Yule Straw, 489
Yule-tide, 453
LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
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