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قراءة كتاب Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
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Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
Practices—Highland Fumigation and “Breast-strip” Customs—Hogmanay and Aguillanneuf—New Year Processions in Macedonia, Roumania, Greece, and Rome—Methods of Augury—Sundry New Year Charms.
CHAPTER XVI
EPIPHANY TO CANDLEMAS335
The Twelfth Cake and the “King of the Bean”—French Twelfth Night Customs—St. Basil's Cake in Macedonia—Epiphany and the Expulsion of Evils—The Befana in Italy—The Magi as Present-bringers—Greek Epiphany Customs—Wassailing Fruit-trees—Herefordshire and Irish Twelfth Night Practices—The “Haxey Hood” and Christmas Football—St. Knut's Day in Sweden—Rock Day—Plough Monday—Candlemas, its Ecclesiastical and Folk Ceremonies—Farewells to Christmas.
CONCLUSION357
NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY361
INDEX389
MADONNA AND CHILD.
By Albrecht Dürer.
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI (Detail)Frontispiece
Gentile da Fabriano. (Florence: Accademia)
MADONNA AND CHILD13
Albert Dürer
MADONNA ENTHRONED WITH SAINTS AND ANGELS31
Pesellino. (Empoli Gallery)
JACOPONE IN ECSTASY BEFORE THE VIRGIN40
From “Laude di Frate Jacopone da Todi” (Florence, 1490)
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS55
By Fouquet. (Musée Condé, Chantilly)
THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT: THE REST BY THE WAY70
Master of the Seven Sorrows of Mary. (Also attributed to Joachim Patinir.) (Vienna: Imperial Gallery)
SINGING “VOM HIMMEL HOCH” FROM A CHURCH TOWER AT CHRISTMAS71
By Ludwig Richter
THE NATIVITY89
From Add. MS. 32454 in the British Museum. (French, 15th Century)
A NEAPOLITAN PRESEPIO108
CALABRIAN SHEPHERDS PLAYING IN ROME AT CHRISTMAS112
After an Etching by D. Allan. From Hone's “Every-day Book” (London, 1826)
ST. FRANCIS INSTITUTES THE PRESEPIO AT GRECCIO114
By Giotto. (Upper Church of St. Francis, Assisi)14
THE BAMBINO OF ARA COELI115
THE ADORATION OF THE SHEPHERDS121
From Broadside No. 305 in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House
THE SHEPHERDS OF BETHLEHEM140
From “Le grant Kalendrier & compost des Bergiers” (N. le Rouge, Troyes, 1529)
THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI154
Masaccio. (Berlin: Kaiser Friedrich Museum)
NEW YEAR MUMMERS IN MANCHURIA161
An Asiatic example of animal masks
CHRISTMAS EVE IN DEVONSHIRE—THE MUMMERS COMING IN229
THE GERMAN CHRISTMAS-TREE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY263
From an engraving by Joseph Kellner