Title: Apple Games and Customs
Author: Beatrice Mayfield
Year: 1994
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 121
Price new: £0.01 (Amazon)*
Price used: £5.95 (Amazon)*
*accurate at the time of posting
Description: (TLDR)
Apples games customs superstitions and more from Common Ground in this approx. A6 sized book. (If we judged the value of books by their size and weight this one would be an instant fail). Www.commonground.org.uk/
On the back of the book it says:
"Apple pie beds, crabbing the parson, longest peel, gifting, fork apple, worsling, dookin' for apples, bite apple, griggling, a'scraggling, dubbing apples, souling, pothering and ponking, a cattin', going a gooding, pigface Sunday, whistle wassail night, clemmening, apple tree man, worsting, howling and youling, taking round the calennig.........
This book will help you sip from a huge wassail bowl of games, customs, sayings and stories, which remind us of the importance and meaning which the apple has in our culture. We hope it will inspire you to carry on the traditions of your own locality and help to build Apple Day on Oct. 21st into a new calendar custom."
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