#wassailing — Public Fediverse posts
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Yesterday's #wassailing.
Led by the #Eynsham #Morris, villagers processed through the orchard banging pots and pans to scare evil spirits, and singing to wake the apple trees and encourage them to produce a good harvest.Spicy cider was readily available to everyone present, warmed on a roaring fire. And toast was hung in the trees - a gift for the good spirits. The birds will be pleased. 😀
Long may this ancient #folktradition continue!
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For those in #EastKent searching a #wassail, there's one in #Sandwich on 4 Jan (with a #hoodening walk etc. before featuring Trudgepig): 14:00 St Crispin Inn, Worth; 15:00 Time & Tide Taproom; 16:00 Sandwich Medieval Centre. (https://www.facebook.com/events/885988743684265/)
Then another in #StNicholasAtWade on 11 Jan, 19:30 (https://www.facebook.com/events/348463171659419/)
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Photo 1: Husband wearing his Unsung Women in Somerset hoodie that he designed. Get your orders in, people!
Photo 2 is the Wassail we went to yesterday. Kids couldn't manage staying for all of it but we saw the mummers.
Wassailing is singing, shooting guns, sprinkling apple trees with cider etc to ward off evil spirits and ensure a good apple crop for the cider.#qotd What unusual traditions does your country have?
#wassail #wassailing #cider #apples #somerset #clarksvilage #unsungWomen
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My #wassailing #hat - very important to #wassail the garden. All of it, not just the fruit trees :)
#traditions #tradition #traditional #pagan #newyear #artistsgarden #imperfectgarden #gardener #artist #wolfkettler #photography #gardenwiltshire #wiltshiregarden #wiltshire #winter #naturalGarden #superstition
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The type of wassailing still common today takes place in orchards, particularly those growing Apples or Pears. People gather in the orchards to sing and generally make noise. They might bang pots and pans or even let off shotguns. The purpose of this is twofold: firstly to wake up the trees and second to scare away any evil spirits lurking in the branches.
10 things you might not know about Wassailing:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/01/5-january-wassailing.html
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the Lions part will celebrate Twelfth Night tomorrow.
On the #Bankside, outside #shakespearesglobe
A #traditional #twelfthnight with #mumming, #wassailing, #music & #dance
I will be a #WhiteBear playing the #violin
Do join us!#wassail #wassails #mummers #ragcoat #elizabethancostume #folk #folkmusic #traditionalmusic #beelzebub #OldOss #FolkTraditions #StGeorge #MummersPlay #holly #Ivy #OldChristmas #earlymoderndrama #folkplay
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the Lions part will be having their annual Twelfth Night festival outside Shakespeare's Globe on Sunday.
Do join us if you're free.
https://londonist.com/london/things-to-do/bankside-twelfth-night-january-holly-man
[I will be a violin-playing bear as usual]
#wassail #mummersplay #mumming #twelfthnight #wassailing #streettheatre #shakespearesglobe
