![]() ![]() These were seen as bringers of good fortune for the coming year. Often decorated with a calennig made from an apple stuck with three twigs toįorm a tripod, coated in spices, dried fruit and nuts and topped with a sprig Gifts are exchanged particularly between family members.įood, money and other gifts might be given. In return (or perhaps simply to make them go away) they would be given coins, On New Year’s day, children would sing door to door at the neighbor’s houses. Leather (kidskin) embroidered with silk and silver-gilt thread, England 1615-1625 Valerie McGlinchey Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Letter in that, but that’s neither here nor there, right?) News Years’ GiftsĮxchanged on New Year’s Day instead of Christmas or Twelfth Night (Epiphany).įood, money, and clothing were traditional gifts, with gloves being (I can’t quite imagine how you would see a They believed that the first letter of the name of man they would marry Marriage partners, young women would drop egg whites into water on New Year’sĭay. With in the coming year if she could get the man she desired to marry to drinkĬurative properties and even washed the udders of cows with it to insure Practice known as ‘creaming the well.’ Possession of this water meant marriage Scotland), young women raced to draw the first water from the well in a Sometimes hung in the kitchen until the next year. Straw on the wheat fields to ensure good luck and bountiful crops. At sunrise on New Year’s Day, a hawthorn bush would be burned in the Herefordshire and Hertfordshire farmers might participate in the Burning BushĬustom. Ticked-off cow would signal good luck, but that’s just me.) (Of course I have to imagine not getting gored by a If the cake fell off in front of the cow, it foretold good luck, ifīehind, bad. Pancake on one of a cow’s horns, then sing and dance around the unsuspectingīovine. Year’s Day suggested how one might discern or influence their fortunes for the Singer who appeared and leading him through the house. Luck into their own hands, ensuring good luck by stopping the first carol In Worcestershire, householders would take That they not be in the house at the stroke of midnight or they could not beĬonsidered a true first-footer. ![]() Places for the first-footer could be a resident of the house, it was imperative Themselves when they were invited in for a holiday toast. Rounds of the neighborhood houses, bringing good luck to the homes and to The first-footer would leave through the backĭoor and take all the old year’s troubles and sorrows. Salt and black bun-representing financial prosperity, warmth, food, good cheer,īe led through the clean home to place the coal on the fire and offer a toast Traditional gifts: coin, a lump of coal, a piece of bread or shortbread, whiskey, Ideally, the first-footer would come bearing Tradition held that no one spoke until the ‘first-footer’ wished ![]()
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