 | George Oliver - Lincolnshire (England) - 1846 - 226 pages
...probably stood an Hermes in Roman times. The boys annually keep up the festival of the Floralia or May-day, making a procession to this hill with May...which is really a sacrifice or religious festival." formidable article of accusation ngainst the religious orders. 20 There is no question but the inmates... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - England - 1872 - 338 pages
...stood an Hermes in Eoman times." He adds : " The boys annually keep up the festival of the Floralia on May-day, making a procession to this hill with...This is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, ty'd round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals. At night they have a bonefire, and other merriment,... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - England - 1872 - 338 pages
...stood an Hermes in Eoman times." He adds : " The boys annually keep up the festival of the Floralia on May-day, making a procession to this hill with...This is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, ty'd round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals. At night they have a bonefire, and other merriment,... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - Folklore - 1872 - 350 pages
...stood an Hermes in Eoman times." He adds : " The boys annually keep up the festival of the Floralia on May-day, making a procession to this hill with...This is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, ty'd round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals. At night they have a bonefire, and other merriment,... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1900 - 582 pages
...annually keep up the festival of the Floralia on May-day, making a procession to this hill with May-gads (as they call them) in their hands. This is a white...wand, the bark peeled off, tied round with cowslips. At night they have a bonfire, and other merriment, which is really a sacrifice or religious festival.... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - Folklore - 1900 - 588 pages
...annually keep up the festival of the Floralia on May-day, making a procession to this hill with May-gads (as they call them) in their hands. This is a white willow wand, the bafk peeled off, tied round with cowslips. At night they have a bonfire, and other merriment, which... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 366 pages
...stood an Hermes in Roman times. The boys annu! ally keep up the festival of the Floralia on May Day, making a procession to this hill with May gads (as...their hands. This is a white willow wand, the bark peel'd off, ty'd round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals. At night they have a bonefire, and... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 364 pages
...stood an Hermes in Roman times. The boys annually keep up the festival of the Floralia on May Day, making a procession to this hill with May gads (as...their hands. This is a white willow wand, the bark peel'd off, ty'd round with cowslips, a tnvrsus of the Bacchanals. At night they have a bonefire, and... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 356 pages
...stood an Hermes in Roman times. The boys annually keep up the festival of the Floralia on May Day, making a procession to this hill with May gads (as they call them) in their hands. Ihis is a white willow wand, the bark peel'd off, ty'd round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals.... | |
 | Eliza Gutch - Folklore - 1908 - 476 pages
...a Bow. This way is the may-pole-hill. . . . The boys annually keep up the festival of the Floralia on May-day, making a procession to this hill with...call them) in their hands : this is a white willow Festivals. 203 wand, the bark peeled off, tied round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals : at... | |
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on Mayday, making a procession to this hill with May gads, as they call them, in their hands : this is a white willow wand, the bark peeled off, tied round with cowslips, a thyrsus of the Bacchanals : at night they have a bonfire and other merriment,... 
