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Last year's Wassail Queen crowns this year's Wassail Queen before going out into the orchard to wassail the apple trees.

Hatfuls, capfuls, three bushel bags full
And a little heap under the stairs!

#wassail #tradition #customs #folklore #Somerset #cider #sheppeys

Last updated 3 years ago

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Here's a link to Facebook (eurgh), for a video of our community orchard wassail.

facebook.com/watch/?v=50983619

That's me in the leafy hat, my colleague is dressed as the Green Man. Another colleague made that fantastic costume.

#orchard #wassail

Last updated 3 years ago

@nowmomentjourn · @nowmomentjourn
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I love finding common threads between cultures. For example, I just shared the Sonam Losar where there is driving away evil spirits in Nepal & Tibet .

And over in the UK, according to folklore, the making noise and even hitting the apple trees to drive away the krampus happens at around the same time as Sonam Losar.

For more info, check out the BBC clip
fb.watch/idFyC_zzUP/?mibextid=



#sonamlosar #wassail #animism

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Jim Breeds · @jimbreeds
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Quite a lot of traditional wassailing going on at present in the area, hoping to ensure a good #`apple crop this year.
So here's a song. in origin, though girl Shirley Collins did a splendid version in 1969, this has always been a favourite of mine from Steeleye Span's 1971 album Ten Man Mop.
(The original album was gatefold, and included photos inside of the band around Hastings Old Town).

youtu.be/p6MpgDVqOvU

#hastings #wassail #welsh #sussex #steeleyespan

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littlerachyb · @littlerachyb
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It's season in the UK. Dancing and drumming through the apple trees in the fire light, to ward off evil and bring about a good harvest.
Horse skull based costumes optional.

#wassail

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Lovely wassailing at @DryArchGrowers today

#wassail

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Up early (for the weekend) to take my Pressedwood in for repair (replacing blown reed), back by lunch in time for wassailing this afternoon (I hope!), it is all go.

#folklife #melodeon #wassail

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Christopher Kelly · @ChrisJKelly
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@smbsy Well done, it's a lovely old tradition. We had ours last weekend...

#wassail #orchards #orchard

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Today I led a wassail ceremony for our little community orchard.

I've not got any pictures of it just yet, but it went really well.

Lots of planning and preparation, culminating in a load of people standing in a park, shouting at some trees and hanging toast on them.

#wassail #orchard

Last updated 3 years ago