County Folk-lore, Tập 4Folk-Lore Society, 1904 |
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Examples of Printed Folk-lore Concerning Northumberland Northcote Whitridge Thomas Xem đoạn trích - 1994 |
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Alnwick Anne Wilkinson Bamburgh Belford BELFORD SCHOOL CHILDREN bell Blanchland blood Bobbie Shaftoe Bobbie Shaftoe's bonny boys BRAND BRAND'S Bourne bride BROCKETT'S Glossary called Castle charm cheese child Christmas my true church corn County Cure custom dance day of Christmas DENHAM dicat door Dorothy dress Earnley easily won fire first-foot Flower of Northumberland G. H. THOMPSON GOMME'S Trad hand head heard HENDERSON hinny hinny burd Hist Holy Island horse HUTCHINSON informer Jane lady lasses legend London Longwitton Lord Derwentwater love is easily Margaret Stothard Midsummer Monthly Chronicle Morpeth Needfire neighbours never Newcastle Newcastle-on-Tyne night Noah person Peter Banks pins play RICHARDSON round saith sayth Shrove Tuesday Sir James Clavering Stamfordham stone Sunday Surtees Soc sword thee thou town true love sent twike unlucky village walk wi Wallington wife witch woman Wooler young maid's love
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Trang 169 - March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, A bushel of March dust is worth a king's ransom.
Trang 168 - The hind had as lief see His wife on the bier As that Candlemas Day Should be pleasant and clear.
Trang 174 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
Trang 73 - Northumberland on this night ; the inhabitants carried some kind of firebrands about the fields of their respective villages. They made encroachments, on these occasions, upon the bonfires of the neighbouring towns, of which they took away some of the ashes by force. This they called " carrying off the flower (probably the flour) of the wake.
Trang 94 - A bell, too, must be rung while the corpse is conducted to church, and during the bringing it out of the church to the grave.
Trang 167 - Eve night-wind blow south, It betokeneth warmth and growth ; If west, much milk, and fish in the sea ; If north, much cold and storms there will be ; If east, the trees will bear much fruit ; If north-east, flee it man and brute."] NEW YEAR'S DAY.
Trang 82 - Christmas comes but once a year : And when it comes, it brings good cheer : But when it's gone it's never the near.
Trang 107 - London Bridge is broken down, Broken down, broken down, London Bridge is broken down, My fair lady. Build it up with wood and clay, Wood and clay, wood and clay, Build it up with wood and clay, My fair lady.
Trang 83 - In the North, children are drawn through a hole cut in the Groaning Cheese, on the day they are christened. Borlase, in his " Antiquities of Cornwall,
Trang 59 - ... ie soul), when required to make asseverations in matters which they think of consequence. In combinations of the colliers, &c., about Newcastle-uponTyne, for the purpose of raising their wages, they are said to spit upon a stone together, by way of cementing their confederacy. Hence the popular saying, when persons are of the same party, or agree in sentiments, that "they spit upon the same stone.