 | Joseph Train - 1845 - 408 pages
...alone, who follow the old custom, principally for amusement. On St. Stephen's day a group of boys' go from door to door with a wren, suspended by the legs, in the centre of two hoops, crossing each other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribbons, singing lines called "... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 pages
...alone, who follow the old custom, principally for amusement. On St. Stephen's day a group of boys1 go from door to door with a wren suspended by the legs, in the centre of two hoops, crossing each other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribands, singing lines called Hunt... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...alone, who follow the old custom, principally for amusement. On St. Stephen's day a group of boys 1 go from door to door with a wren suspended by the legs, in the centre of two hoops, crossing each other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribands, singing lines called Hunt... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1884 - 580 pages
...boys alone, who keep up the old custom chiefly for amusement. On St. Stephen's Day, a band of boys go from door to door with a wren suspended by the legs, in the centre of two hoops crossing each other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribbons, singing lines called "... | |
 | Charles Swainson - 1885 - 268 pages
...Isle of Man " (Douglas, 1845), vol. ii., pp. 124-7, says that on St. Stephen's Day a group of boys go from door to door with a wren suspended by the legs in the centre of two hoops crossing each other at right augles, decorated with evergreens and ribands, singing lines called '•... | |
 | Charles Swainson - 1886 - 270 pages
...Isle of Man" (Douglas, 1845), vol. ii., pp. 124-7, says that on St. Stephen's Day a group of boys go from door to door with a wren suspended by the legs in the centre of two hoops crossing each other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribands, singing lines called "... | |
 | 1892 - 588 pages
...alone, who follow the old custom principally for amusement. On St. Stephen's Day a group of boys go from door to door with a wren suspended by the legs, in the centre of two hoops crossing each other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribbons, singing lines called Hunt... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900 - 494 pages
...burial of the wren took place in the Isle of Man on St. Stephen's Day (the twenty-sixth of December). Boys went from door to door with a wren suspended...the song they received a small coin, they gave in 1 P. S^billot, Traditions et Super- Romanesque et Merveilleuse, p. 221 ; stitions de la Haute-Bretagne,... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1900 - 498 pages
...burial of the wren took place in the Isle of Man on St. Stephen's Day (the twenty-sixth of December). Boys went from door to door with a wren suspended...at right angles and were decorated with evergreens t and ribbons. The bearers sang certain lines in which reference was made to boiling and eating the... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1900 - 582 pages
...alone, who follow the old custom principally for amusement. On St. Stephen's Day a group of boys go from door to door with a wren suspended by the legs, in the centre of two hoops crossing each Other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribbons, singing lines called Hunt... | |
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... for amusement. On St. Stephen's day a group of boys' go from door to door with a wren, suspended by the legs, in the centre of two hoops, crossing each other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribbons... 
