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276 Customs and superstitions concerning death 277-278 Funeral customs 279-281 Telling the bees 281-282 CHAPTER XVII CUSTOMS CONNECTED WITH CERTAIN DAYS AND SEASONS The New Year 283-286 Twelfth Day, and Plough Monday 286-288 Candlemas Day 289 Shrovetide 290-291 Sundays in Lent 291-292 Good Friday 292-293 Easter 293-296 May-day 296-297 Rogation Days 297-298 Whitsuntide 298 Rush-bearing 298-299 Halloween 299-300 All Souls’ Day, and St. Clement’s Day 300-301 St. Thomas’ Day 301-302 Christmas 302-304 Childermas Day 304 Feasts and fairs 305-306 CHAPTER XVIII GAMES Historical importance of children’s games 307 Girls’ singing-games 308 The game of marbles 309 Children’s rhymes addressed to birds and insects 310-311 CHAPTER XIX WEATHER LORE AND FARMING TERMS The weather as a topic for conversation 312-313 Signs of rain and of fine weather 314-317 Prophecies concerning seasons and crops 317-318 Thomas Tusser and his ‘good husbandlie lessons’