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    • The Welsh Gorsedd - Nature

      Nature· 1 day ago

      THE ritual of the present-day Welsh Gorsedd, while it attracts the curious crowd, arouses the indignation of many sober-minded nationalists, who deplore ...

    • Calendar of Customs and Festivals - Nature

      Nature· 20 hours ago

      A rite practised on Christmas Eve as well as on New Year's Eve in many parts of Great Britain, but especially in the south and west, was that of wassailing the fruit trees. A bowl of eider and ...

    • Witchcraft and the Black Mass - Nature

      Nature· 18 hours ago

      G. G. Coulton gives numerous examples of the use of the Host as a vaguely powerful charm, quite apart from any ritual except such as is implied in the use of any charm whatever; for example, ...

    • Research Items - Nature

      Nature· 22 hours ago

      Earliest known Miracle Play, Mr. T. H. Gaster describes in Folk-Lore, vol. 44, pt. 4, what he believes to be the text of a mumming play or representation in action of a ritual poem from cuneiform ...

    • Taboo* - Nature

      Nature· 18 hours ago

      A ritual prohibition is a rule of bohaviour which is associated with a belief that an infraction will result in an undesirable change in the ritual status ...