Guernsey Folk Lore

Part I.

Times and Seasons, Festivals and Merry-makings.

CHAPTER I.

Festival Customs.

“Many precious rites And customs of our rural ancestry Are gone, or stealing from us.”

--_Wordsworth._

The observance of particular days and seasons, and of certain customs connected with them, has been in all countries more or less mixed up with religion. Many of ...