Customs+and+Traditions

 ﻿ Customs and Traditions

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__**Traditonal dishes**__

 * Spotted Dick
 * Ploughman's Lanch[[image:whatisbritish2b/Yorkshire_Pudding.jpg width="208" height="224" align="right" caption="Yorkshire pudding"]]
 * Dangers and Mash, black pudding

__**Main Dishes**__

 * Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (suday lunch)
 * Yorkshire not dessert, main course or starter
 * Toad-in-the-hole (sausages coverd roast beef)
 * Horeradish sauce, englishmustard, Gravy with mutton and lamb onion sauce
 * Red- currandt jelly, mint sauce savoury herb pudding, with pork- apple sauce pease pudding and rosted apples

= __ **Traditions** __ = __**January**__ __**February**__ __**March**__ __**April**__ __**May ﻿ **__ __**June**__ __**July**__ __**August**__ __**September**__ __**October**__ __**November**__ __**December**__ = = = __ **Superstitions** __ = __**Good Luck**__
 * Twelth Night (5th January)**
 * To avoid bad luck all christmas decorations should be taken down by January 5th.**
 * End of the Christmas season in England.**
 * Imbolc Fire Festval (Huddersfield)**
 * Shows the first signs of spring and is based on a 2,000 year old Celtic holiday.**
 * The Tichborne Dole (March 25th)**
 * Takes place every year at the feast of annuciation. It dates back tlo the 13th century.**
 * Walpurgis Night, Beltane Eve**
 * Is a Celtic fire festival that celebrates the coming of summer.**
 * May Day (First day in May)**
 * Is the day of romance and love, with many colorful and traditional costums.**
 * Dickens Festival**
 * A festival that celebrates the works and life of Charles Dickens**
 * Swan Upping (july 3rd to that friday)**
 * Takes place on the Thames River. There is a census on the swans annually.**
 * Scarecrow Festival (kettlewell, York**
 * Life size scarecrows are made and displayed around the village by local people in early to mid August.**
 * Church Clipping**
 * This supposed to be an outward afection towards the church. The people surround the church holding hands.**
 * Punky Night**
 * On this night children make jackOlanterns and march through the streets.**
 * Bonfire Night (November 5th)**
 * This night is filled with fireworks. It takes place at lewes East Sussex. There is a torch light procession before the lighting on the Bonfire.**
 * Boxing Day**
 * This day was Originally called St. Stephens Day. The name was changed sometime in the middle ages. There would be special boxes at church to make contributions to. On St. stephens day the boxes would be opened and the money inside would be given to the poor.**
 * Foods of the season: Roast Potatoes, Brussel Sprouts with almounds, Mince Meat, Mince Pies, Appl Yule Logs, Christmas Pudding, Butter Shortbread, Triflle, Fruitcake.**
 * Seasonal Songs: The boar's head carol, Deck the halls with boughs of holly, Away in the manger, on christmas night, We wish you a merry christmas.**
 * Surprisingly meeting a black cat in England is good luck.
 * It's good luck to touch, or knock on wood to make your wishes true.
 * White Heather is lucky
 * Hanging a horseshoe rightside up is good luck.
 * I'ts also good to say white rabbits 3 times before you say anything else on the first day of each month.
 * Catching falling leaves in Autum is good luck.
 * Cutting your hair when the moon is waxing will give you good luck.
 * It's good luck to put money in new clothes.

__Bad Luck__
 * It's unlucky to walk underneath ladders.
 * Don't spill salt, if you do make sure you throw some over your shoulder to cancle your bad luck.
 * You get seven years bad luck when you break a mirror.
 * I'ts unlucky to see 1 magpie, but lucky to see 2.
 * It's bad luck to open umbellas indoors.
 * The number 13 is really unlucky.
 * It's unlucky to put new shoes on the table.
 * It's unlucky to pass someone walking on the stairs.

**__Food Superstitions__**
 * When your done eating a boiled egg your supposed to push your spoon through the bottom of the empty shell to let the devil out.
 * Housewives in yorkshire used to believe that bread would not rise if there was a dead body in the vicinity, and that cutting both ends of the loaf would make the devil fly over the house.


 * __Table Superstitions__ **
 * When you drop a table knife you should expect a male visitor, when you drop a table fork you should expect a female visitor.
 * If you leave a white tablecloth on a table overnight you should expect a death.
 * Crossed cutlery on your plate and expect a quarrel.


 * __ ﻿Animal Superstitions﻿ __**
 * It's bad luck to see bats flying and to hear their cries.
 * If a sparrow enters a house, it means one of the people there will die.
 * It's considered unlucky to have feathers of a peacock in your home.

__**Wedding Superstitions**__
 * The bride and groom shoild not meet on the day of the wedding.
 * The bride should not wear her wedding attire before the wedding day.
 * The groom should carry the bride over the threshold of the house.
 * For good luck the bride should wear, something borrowed, something blue, something old ,and something new.

= Folklore Calendar =

__January__

 * New Years Day is the day of the year in Gregorian Calendar (Jan 1st)
 * People welcome it night befour ( New Years Eve) with parties, fireworks, singing, and dancing.
 * As the big ben ( clock strikes) midnight people sing a song called Auld Long Sune

__February__

 * Candleams Day ( the Christian Festival of lights)
 * 2nd of february marks the midpoint of the winter half way between the shortest day and the spring equinox
 * This of the year is when all the candles are used in the church and during the coming year brought into the church to be blessed.

__March__
March to said to Apirl I see 3 hoggs upon a hill And if you 11 lend me dayes I'll find a way to make them dee(die) The first o'them wus wind and weet the second o'them wus snaw and sleet The third o'them wus sic a freeze It froze the brids nebs (noses) to the trees When the 3 days were past and gane The 3 silly hoggs came hirpling ( limping) hame
 * Borroewed days
 * Taking the last three from April

__April__

 * St. Geroges day (april 23) celebrated in england in honor of St George the parton saint who slaid the fire breathing dragon & rescued the maiden
 * The national emblem & national flower of england is the rose

__May__

 * May (Garland Day)
 * Marked the end of the harsh winter months
 * welcomes the summer and optimistically looks forward to the bright and productive months
 * In olden times had annual festival and through out the country, especially on the first of May with music , dancing and games

__June__

 * The red rose is the flower for June
 * symbolizes love ( sought after flower for Valentines's Day)
 * In England and is worn on St George's Day

__July__

 * Henly Royal Regatta takes place in the 1st week of july began in 1839 with a signal afternoon & now last 10 days

__Aug__

 * Lammas Day
 * Aug 1st
 * Was the Thanksgiving time in Britain
 * Comes from an Anglo-Saxon word Hlamaesse which means Loaf Mass
 * Festival of Lammas marks the beginning of the harvest, when people go to church to give thanks the first corn to be cut
 * Predates our Christian harvest festival

__Sept__

 * 29 - 25 of March Michelmas day / Goose day

__Nov__

 * Armistice Day (11 of Nov) people remeber the millions of soldier who died in war

__Dec__

 * world aids day

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