Hogmanay Traditions in Scotland Detail Festive Customs
A historical survey recalls Scotland's Christmas observance shift from rigid piety to communal celebration. It describes Hogmanay rites from the Daft Days to first-foot traditions, guisers, and regional games like Yettlins, with customs on gifts, food, and protective superstitions, detailing songs, rhymes, and the social role of hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hestern
Scotland
Carlin
Gusards
Guizards
Guising
England
Bessie
Tron Kirk
Edinburgh
Dundee
Women’s Social and Political Union
Women's League of Freedom
Guidman
France
Jameson
Aberdeenshire
Skellies and Yettlins Describe Old Scottish New Year Customs
The article details Skellies a shelved rock course and its yettlin balls used for scoring hail in a local Scottish New Year game. It also describes Burghead's New Year clavie ceremony with a tar barrel carried through town amid cheers, with a fierce turnover of bearers at street corners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Scotland
Elginshire
Besouthen
Wemyss
Fifeshire
Firth of Forth
Skelleys
Burghead
Pinkey the Chesterfield Hosts Night Life Lodge Twice a Week
A Washington bar keeper nicknamed Pinkey, a chocolate colored Chesterfield, runs a small unique refreshment spot for correspondents and officials. One week his friend returns a suit misassigned to a rival waiter. Pinkey jokes about attending a lodge meeting while adding they were organizing the colored Hibernians.
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Pinkey
Jes
Purported Patent Remedies and Snatches of Prose
An advertising fragment mentions Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for digestion and a child teething syrup by Mrs Winslow's priced at 25 cents. It also cites a remark about Pericles and a comparison of cigars, ending with a social proverb about lending money.
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New Sears
H. Scotland
Dr. Brown
R A. Lea
Rachel Sweet Macnamara
Pericles
Hostetter
Manitolse
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Manito
Skatchewan
Sup't
Ottawa
Canada
W. H. Rogers
Ninth St
Kansas City
Trapper’s Guide Free
Tex Wien
T. J. Brown
Thompson
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