Tomorrow with Christmas Day we begin the Twelve Days of Christmas until Twelfth Night.
Whilst researching for another post on this blog piece I happened upon Popular Superstitions of the Winter Season: 1840 This is the text of an article from 1840 which records a number of English and particularly Scottish customs and traditions from these festive days.
Seventeenth century practice is outlined in a series of posts from the Earl of Manchester’s Regiment of Foote. These can be seen at Celebrate the 12 Days of a 17th Century Christmas!, though I must give a spoiler alert that I shall be posting about Boy Bishops and linking to the article about them on that site in a few days.
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