British Popular Customs, Present and Past. T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

       Jan. 20. ] ST. AGNES’ EVE.

       SCOTLAND.

       Jan. 21. ] ST. AGNES’ DAY.

       Jan. 24. ] ST. PAUL’S EVE.

       Cornwall.

       Jan. 25. ] ST. PAUL’S DAY.

       St. Paul’s Cathedral.

       Jan. 31. ] EXECUTION OF CHARLES I.

       Jan. 31. ]

       Isle of Man.

       Nottinghamshire.

       Oxfordshire.

       Feb. 1. ] CANDLEMAS EVE.

       Nottinghamshire.

       Feb. 2. ] CANDLEMAS DAY.

       Dorsetshire.

       Yorkshire.

       SCOTLAND.

       Western Isles of Scotland.

       COLLOP MONDAY.

       Buckinghamshire.

       Cornwall.

       Devonshire.

       Feb. 3. ] ST. BLAIZE’S DAY.

       Candles offered to St. Blaze.

       SHROVE TUESDAY.

       Cock-Fighting.

       Throwing at Cocks.

       Shying at Leaden Cocks.

       Shy for Shy.

       Threshing the Hen

       Buckinghamshire.

       Cheshire.

       Cornwall.

       Cumberland.

       Derbyshire.

       Devonshire.

       Dorsetshire and Wiltshire.

       Hampshire.

       Hertfordshire.

       Huntingdonshire.

       Kent.

       Lancashire.

       Leicestershire.

       Isle of Man.

       Middlesex.

       Norfolk.

       Northamptonshire.

       Northumberland.

       Nottinghamshire.

       Oxfordshire.

       Islands of Scilly.

       Shropshire.

       Somersetshire.

       Staffordshire.

       Suffolk.

       Surrey.

       Isle of Wight.

       Yorkshire.

       WALES.

       SCOTLAND.