Quaint Old Customs
In many villages of Yorkshire and Lancashire hard-boiled eggs, gay in colour, arc rolled down the hillsides on Easter Monday. Tho custom is symbolic of tho Resurrection. While these proceedings aro taking place the custom of “lifting” may be followed. Several men, clasping each other’s hands to form a seat, lift up women and girls, then .carry tnem a few yards along the street. On Easter Tuesday it is the women’s turn —they, in like fashion, will lift up the men. In London on the last day of March the ceremony of ‘ ‘ Oranges and Lemons” can be witnessed St. Clement Danes Church. Every year these fruits are distributed by the clergy to the children of this parish. If a tourist happens to be in Eerbyshirc during the first week in May ho
should not miss the pretty ceremony of “Dressing the Village Wells with Flowers,” which is held at Tissington.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 8
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153Quaint Old Customs Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6866, 24 May 1932, Page 8
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