#wassailing

[abz-j-harding]

-Let us sing new life into the year to come-

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#my artwork #art #abzjharding #abz-j-harding #ink #artist #artists #illustration #drawing #mari lwyd #wassailing #abigail jill harding #artists on tumblr

[upthewitchypunx]

Hey Portland area folks, wanna go wassailing?

#wassail #wassailing #sing to the trees #drink cider #folk magic #folk traditions #cider #stone circle cidery

[alliterative-endlessknot]

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is WASSAIL/HEALTH #wotd #wassail #health #HereWeComeAwassailing #wassailing #Christmas #ChristmasCarol

#wassail #health #wassailing #here we come a-wassailing #christmas #christmas carol #etymology #wotd #connectedatbirth #words #language #linguistics #word nerd #wordnerd #history of the english language #history of english #historical linguistics #lingcomm #lingblr

[albaillustration]

My latest painting, "Here We Come A-Wassailing" was created for my 2023 Patreon holiday card! The painting is 5x7.25, created with ink, watercolor, and acryla gouache. And the actual holiday cards have now arrived! They printed fantastic and I love the gold foil text. If you'd like to receive one of these in the mail, consider joining my Patreon at www .patreon. com /elisabethalba (link in my bio on the left at albaillustration.tumblr.com). They also come with a new vinyl cat sticker (plus other stickers and such for signing up). There are a range of tiers to choose from.

It's a tough time to be a career artist right now, but I know it's also tough for many of you, too. If you can't sign up, I'm also grateful if you reblog my work!

Whatever you celebrate, I hope you all have a very lovely holiday season!

#christmas #happy holidays #yule #cute animals #illustration #hedgehog #mole #mouse #animal art #wassailing #caroling

[feral-babe]

Mari Lwyd is said to appear on the darkest nights in Wales, roaming the countryside door-to-door to engage in a hauntingly rhythmic battle of wits with the occupants of each home. She is said to bless those courageous enough to invite her into their homes with good luck.

Mari Lwyd, Lwyd Mari

A sacred thing through the night they carry.

Betrayed are the living, betrayed the dead

All are confused by a horse's head.

— Vernon Watkins, "Ballad of the Mari Lwyd"

The actual custom is really cool (it is a wassailing tradition), definitely look it up if you aren’t familiar 💜

Prints available on Redbubble and Inprnt

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[frogshunnedshadows]

Friendly reminder that tonight is Old Twelvey, the last night you may legally go wassailing. Stay hale, my friends.

#old twelvey #wassail #mari lwyd #horse skull #welsh folklore #wassailing #folk ways #costume #stay hale my friends

[maypoleman1]

5th January

Twelfth Night/ Old Christmas Eve

1986 Christmas stamp. Source: The Garden Trust website

Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus’ uncle, visited Britain according to Christian folklore and while here, planted his staff in the ground at Glastonbury and it immediately sprouted into a thorn tree. The Glastonbury Thorn was thereafter considered holy and it proved its divine provenance by blooming each Christmas Day. When the calendar changed and the former Christmas Day moved to 5th January which, confusingly, became known as Old Christmas Eve, the Thorn sadly did not accommodate its blooming habits to the new dating system. The Puritans had considered the Joseph legend stuff and nonsense and during the Commonwealth the Thorn was cut down. Cuttings survived however and were replanted, with the Thorn once again coming into flower in both midwinter and early spring to this day. To add some veracity to the legend, the Thorn is estimated by botanists to have its origins in the Middle East.

Twelfth Night, the night before the last day of the Christmas season was often celebrated by a final bout of wassailing. To wassail - the word is derived from the Anglo-Saxon toast waes hael , or good health - is to pass round a bowl of festive ale or mead punch and to drink to the season. Wassailing was also carried out by groups of beggars on a trip called the Visiting Wassail, who throughout Christmas would go door to door seeking food and wassail drink. Tonight was the last opportunity the alms seekers had to importune their neighbours in this way before being told to go away and come back next year.

#Joseph of arimathea #glastonbury #Glastonbury thorn #twelfth night #old Christmas Eve #wassailing #english folklore #Christian legend #visiting wassail

[thecatfortress]

This Yuletide, open your houses to Mari Lwyd

let her into your home and share with her your food and drink, so that she will take the winter's frost with her when she leaves.

#art #fantasy art #folklore #mari lwyd #horse #wassailing #folk art #yuletide

[raethereptile]

Feeling very sad about the fact I've lived in Wales my whole life and not once seen a Mari Lwyd

I know that means I should have become the Mari Lwyd, but I lack the gift or rhyme, so I fear I cannot

Still want to see the rap battling horse skull tho

#mari lwyd #christmas #wassail #wassailing #wales

[jetjaguartart]

Mari Lwyd, or the Grey Mare, a South Wales wassailing character

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#mari lwyd #grey mare #wassailing #tattoo flash #new tumblr artist

[courtleymanor]

Gower Wassail performed by Steeleye Span

from my Yule playlist

A-wassail, a-wassail throughout all the town Our cup it is white and our ale it is brown Our wassail is made of the good ale and cake Some nutmeg and ginger, the best we could bake

Our wassail is made of the elderberry bough And so my good neighbors we'll drink unto thou Besides all on earth, you'll have apples in store Pray let us come in for it's cold by the door...

We hope that your apple trees prosper and bear So that we may have cider when we call next year And where you have one barrel we hope you'll have ten So that we may have cider when we call again

There's a master and a mistress sitting down by the fire While we poor wassail boys stand here in the mire Come you pretty maid with your silver headed pin Pray open the door and let us come in

It's we poor wassail boys so weary and cold Please drop some small silver into our bowl And if we survive for another new year Perhaps we may call and see who does live here

We know by the moon that we are not too soon And we know by the sky that we are not too high And we know by the stars that we are not too far And we know by the ground that we are within sound

#gower wassail #steeleye span #yule playlist #yule songs #yuletide music #wassail #wassailing #Youtube

[upthewitchypunx]

This event was moved to this Saturday! See you in the trees of Estacada!

#wassail #wassailing #stone circle cidery #stone circle cider #estacada oregon #cider

[rosiehoney]

Waking the trees with song, dance and decorations is lovely.

#wassailing #tree toast #witchblr #green witch #nature

[cassyown]

ℝ𝕖𝕔𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖 ~ 𝕎𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕒𝕚𝕝 Pour le plaisir et vous donner l'inspiration en cette saison hivernale, je vous partage ma recette du Wassail, revisitée pour 2 personnes. Les étapes sont assez simples, on met tous les ingrédients sauf l'amaretto dans une casserole, on couvre et on laisse chauffer à feu doux jusqu'à ce que les quartiers de pommes deviennent translucides. Lorsque c'est prêt, on passe le tout au tamis (j'aime présenter le wassail dans une cruche) on ajoute l'amaretto et hop on boit! Si vous voulez être fancy dans votre présentation vous pouvez ajouter un bâton de cannelle et des tranches d'oranges ou de pommes fraîches dans la cruche 🍎🍊 --- https://www.instagram.com/p/CmpG8ohof_G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#wassail #wassailing #traditiondeyule #cidrechaud #cidreépicé #recetewassail #recettehivernale #boissonréconfort #cannelle #pomme #orange #gingembre #cidrebrut #muscade #girofle #amaretto #witchydrink #yuledrink #yuletide #boissonchaude #cidredeyule #recettemagique #traditionspaiennes

[frogshunnedshadows]

It Crismis.

Mari Crismis.

#mari lwyd #marilwyd #christmas #it crismis #cosplay #holiday cosplay tampa bay #costumery #tom foolery #wassail #wassailing #horse skull #papercraft #holly #ribbons #i'm a horse #folklore

[maypoleman1]

16th January

St Sigebert’s Day/ Old Twelfth Night

Source: UCANR website

Today is St Sigebert’s Day. Sigebert was another Anglo-Saxon king who renounced his throne in favour of the monastic life. However, when the fearsome pagan king of Mercia, Penda, attacked Sigebert’s former realm of East Anglia, his ex-subjects persuaded him to come out of retirement in order to save them from the pagan’s wrath. Remaining true to his vows, Sigebert agreed to resume his throne, but insisted he be armed with a wooden sword and so avoid taking a human life in battle. Unfortunately for the pacific Sigebert and his East Anglians, Penda’s Mercians destroyed his army, conferring immediate martyrdom on the holy king, as well as sainthood.

Today is also Old Twelfth Night, being the last night of Christmas according to the old calendar. For that reason apple wassailing continued on the night of the 16th for over 200 years after the date of Epiphany Eve moved to 5th January. On this night men would gather by firelight in orchards to toast the apple trees with cider and to wish the spirits of the trees a Happy New Year and exhort them to allow their trees a bountiful late summer harvest. A typical verse sung by the wassailers was:

Old Apple Tree we wassail thee and hope that thou wilt bear,

For Lord doth know where we shall be till apples come another year.

Although the Old Twelfth Night wassailing tradition died out in the early twentieth century, it was revived in the 1980s and enthusiastic wassailing now takes place in the orchards of Much Marcle near Ledbury in Hereford and Worcester; Norton Fitzwarren outside Taunton in Somerset and Carhampton, also in Somerset. Amazingly, the revivals were sponsored and funded by cider makers Westons, and Taunton Cider.

#english traditions #st Sigebert #penda of mercia #east anglia #Apple wassailing #old twelfth night #cider #wassailing #somerset #Apple orchards