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Olden Holiday Customs.
the Jew , of derision ancl uncharitableness . A gammon of bacon was eaten on Easter-day . In some places this may still be retained , together with a singular custom of bringing to table what was termed a red-herring riding on horseback ; that is , set up in a corn salad to resemble the act of riding . In Northumberland ancl Cumberlandit is customary to stain parboiled
, eggs with infusions of various colours , with which many games are played in the open air . These are termed pace or , vulgarly , paste eggs , and seem to be indisputably derived from the paschal offerings . Eggs may have been selected at the close of Lent as they were food prohibited during its continuance . They were used in the Greek Church in its Easter ceremonials . Among
the ancients , the egg was an emblem of the universe , the work of the Supreme Divinity . We now come to the first of April , the fool-making on which day has puzzled antiquarians to decide confidently as to its origin . The term used in the north of England for the victim is an April -goivki . e . cuckoo ; in Francewhere the custom
, , prevails , he is denominated , " un poisson d'Avril , " an April fish . The signification of the latter title is not understood . In Provence , every one , rich and poor , used on this day to dine on a kind of peas , peculiar to the country , caRe & pois chiches ; and
it was customary to send novices to the convent of the Chartreux to beg for these peas of the fathers , whose patience ultimately becoming exhausted , upon too numerous applications , it ivas AveU if the bearer did not receive back his dish in the shape of a missile , in place of the bounty demanded . The Romans held a feast of fools , relative to which a passage
occurs in Plutarch : — "Why do they call the Quirinalia the feast of fools ? Either because they allowed this day ( as Juba tells us ) to those Avho could not ascertain their OAVU tribes , or because theypermitted those tribes who had missed the celebration of Fornacalia in their proper tribes , along with the rest of the peopleeither out of negligenceabsenceor ignoranceto hold
, , , , their festival apart on this clay . April the 1 st , hoAvever , is not the only day dedicated to fool-making . In the " Gentleman ' s Magazine" for 1791 , we find that the first of May was , in the north of England , marked in a similar Avay . At this time , the " May gosling , " it is stated , " was made as eagerly as an April noddyor noodle . "
, The noAV rapidly declining observances on May-day originated about 250 B . C . The Romans held dances , and offered floAvers , in honour of Flora , from the 28 th April to the 1 st May . The peculiar character of this festival has been best preserved at Lynn , in Norfolk , oAving to the Roman colony at that place . A
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Olden Holiday Customs.
the Jew , of derision ancl uncharitableness . A gammon of bacon was eaten on Easter-day . In some places this may still be retained , together with a singular custom of bringing to table what was termed a red-herring riding on horseback ; that is , set up in a corn salad to resemble the act of riding . In Northumberland ancl Cumberlandit is customary to stain parboiled
, eggs with infusions of various colours , with which many games are played in the open air . These are termed pace or , vulgarly , paste eggs , and seem to be indisputably derived from the paschal offerings . Eggs may have been selected at the close of Lent as they were food prohibited during its continuance . They were used in the Greek Church in its Easter ceremonials . Among
the ancients , the egg was an emblem of the universe , the work of the Supreme Divinity . We now come to the first of April , the fool-making on which day has puzzled antiquarians to decide confidently as to its origin . The term used in the north of England for the victim is an April -goivki . e . cuckoo ; in Francewhere the custom
, , prevails , he is denominated , " un poisson d'Avril , " an April fish . The signification of the latter title is not understood . In Provence , every one , rich and poor , used on this day to dine on a kind of peas , peculiar to the country , caRe & pois chiches ; and
it was customary to send novices to the convent of the Chartreux to beg for these peas of the fathers , whose patience ultimately becoming exhausted , upon too numerous applications , it ivas AveU if the bearer did not receive back his dish in the shape of a missile , in place of the bounty demanded . The Romans held a feast of fools , relative to which a passage
occurs in Plutarch : — "Why do they call the Quirinalia the feast of fools ? Either because they allowed this day ( as Juba tells us ) to those Avho could not ascertain their OAVU tribes , or because theypermitted those tribes who had missed the celebration of Fornacalia in their proper tribes , along with the rest of the peopleeither out of negligenceabsenceor ignoranceto hold
, , , , their festival apart on this clay . April the 1 st , hoAvever , is not the only day dedicated to fool-making . In the " Gentleman ' s Magazine" for 1791 , we find that the first of May was , in the north of England , marked in a similar Avay . At this time , the " May gosling , " it is stated , " was made as eagerly as an April noddyor noodle . "
, The noAV rapidly declining observances on May-day originated about 250 B . C . The Romans held dances , and offered floAvers , in honour of Flora , from the 28 th April to the 1 st May . The peculiar character of this festival has been best preserved at Lynn , in Norfolk , oAving to the Roman colony at that place . A