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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.30 (04) [E]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ron/ Reinhard wrote</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Traditionally, there are
also games that deal with reading fortunes. One of the favorites is <i>Bliegeten</i>
(German <i>Bleigießen</i> "pouring of lead") in which liquid lead is
poured from a spoon into cold water. The pourer's fortune is supposed to be
symbolized by the solidified shape. Less dangerous alternatives are tin pouring
and wax pouring.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">This is also a well known
custom here - but if I'm not mistaken , at hallowe'en rather than New Year.
Walter Scott refers to this custom in his story of Aunt Margaret's Mirror (is
that the right name?) where another tradition is mentioned, that of looking
into a mirror at midnight to see your true love's reflection behind you.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Easier by far is to peel an
apple keeping the peel unbroken for as long as possible, prefereably the whole
apple! and then tossing it over your shoulder. The letter formed by
the peel on the ground gives you the initial of the name of your true love.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">(Sounds to me like a clever
wheeze to get apples peeled by your family !)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Happy New Year to All</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">from a freezing but dry
Worcestershire</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Heather</span></p>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.30 (03) [E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">In England,
and I believe Scotland, New Year was traditionally the 25th of March; we in
fact still preserve this in our tax year, which starts on April 11.
That's because, when England
switched to the Gregorian callendar, we lost 17 callendar days.
People refused to cough up on New Year's Day, so payment was deferred for
the 17 days.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The 25th
March date is incidentally the answer to a historical conundrum: how, on
20th March 1485, could a man describe the outcome of the Battle of Bosworth
(22nd August 1485), without recourse to supernatural powers etc?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Scotland</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> had already changed callendars before Union, as Scotland was
Catholic at the time; Protestant England refused as it was thought to be a
Papist AntiChrist plot to make people celebrate Easter on the wrong day,
thus damning their souls.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Much
earlier, in late Anglo-Saxon times, New Year and Christmas were officially the
same day. Tradition has it that William of Normandy moved it so that when
he had himself crowned as King of England on 25th December 1066, the
celebrations wouldn't clash!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul</span></p>
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