#english traditions

[pagansphinx]

Archibald MacKinnon (British, 1850–1935) Hogmanay at the Cross, Campbeltown • 1899 • Campbeltown Museum, UK

#art #painting #fine art #art history #archibald mackinnon #historical painting #british artist #english traditions #oil painting #pagan sphinx art blog #art blog #painter #cityscape #buildings #cityscape art #nocturnal painting

[maypoleman1]

26th December

Boxing Day/St Stephen’s Day

Source: The Irish Times website

Today is St Stephen’s Day, also known as Boxing Day. Stephen was the first Christian to be martyred for his faith. In the very early years of Christianity, the new religion was trying to work out its relationship with Judaism, but Stephen boldly trod unequivocal ground when he argued that the new Christian Law as summarised in Jesus’ teachings, should supersede Mosaic Law for believers. This blatant heresy did not go down well with the first century Jewish authorities, who had Stephen stoned to death in AD 35. Before his death, Stephen had been the Apostles’ treasurer and in charge of alms-giving to the poor. This connection then associated his feast day with gift-giving during the Christmas season.

The term “Boxing Day” has nothing to do with Christmas pugilism: rather it is a reference to the boxes carried by the poor after Christmas Day, begging for alms, food and hard cash from the better off. This tradition became popularised in the nineteenth century when the conscientious wealthy would give their domestic servants leave to take the day after Christmas off, and equipped them with gift boxes filled with presents or leftover food from their own Christmas dinners, to take to their families to help them celebrate the holiday. Boxing Day was the favourite day of the festive season on which mumming plays would be performed and Morris Dancers would take to the streets to celebrate Christmas. Today was also the day in which the Hunting the Wren ritual was performed. The wren had a mystical reputation, being viewed as the King of the Birds, but on St Stephen’s Day, it was quite literally fair game for the so-called Wren Boys. The tradition had its origins in the belief that the wren represented winter and its despatch in late December guaranteed the arrival of spring in the following year. The corpse of the tiny bird would be paraded from house to house laid on a wooden platform held aloft by a pole by the Wren Boys, who would sing a carol describing the demise of the bird while also seeking the gift of alms.

#english traditions #boxing day #st stephen #early Christianity #alms giving #christmas #hunting the wren #mumming plays #morris dancer #the wren boys

[the-october-country]

Here’s a compilation video showing various groups performing Chesire soul-caking plays - these are the Warburton, Comberbach and Antrobus Soul Cakers. 

The Antrobus Soul Cakers are particularly famous, and if you’re in the north west of England, it’s not too late in the season to see them perform - over the next ten days they have a lot of dates coming up, which you can find in more screen reader-friendly format in this post on their Facebook page, along with links to the venues.

#souling #soulcaking #all souls' day #all souls day #english traditions #english customs #cheshire #autumn festivals #soulcaking plays

[s-u-w-i]

finally, I can draw something just for fun again :')

I really like those Rohan chaps 🐎 guess it's kind of a redraw of this old thing

#my art #illustration #ink #traditional art #character design #tolkien #english literature #grima wormtongue #eowyn #theoden #rohan #lotr

[cheesycatz]

Garbage Data

#spamton #spamton fanart #deltarune #deltarune fanart #deltarune chapter 2 #spamton g spamton #spamton deltarune #traditional art #cheesycatz art posts #this man carries more diseases than a 1600s english trade ship

[cringefail-clown]

a sweet token of appreciation for friends 🧁❤️

#homestuck #dirk strider #jake english #roxy lalonde #jane crocker #alpha kids #we always did give each others gifts like chocolates and flowers in my old friend group in highschool for valentines day #so i wanted to capture it with the alpha kids bc it was always such a fun tradition weve had c': #appreciate your frenz for vday!! platonic love ftw!!!

[bleumingdays]

— september ✹ monthly food log (via bleumingdays)

#hobonichi #hobonichi techo #art journal #hobonichi english #ほぼ日weeks #ほぼ日 #ほぼ日手帳 #art journaling #bleumingdays #watercolor #gouache #gouache journal #traditional painting #watercolour art #bullet journal #bujo #bujo spread #food illustration #food art #monthly log #studyblr #commonplace book

[ginger-by-the-sea]

Lulumoonowlbooks

#Edwardian Christmas #library #festive #traditional design #english country

[vintagehomecollection]

The bed is reflected in a mirror over the fireplace. The angles formed by the mullioned windows and the position of the bed make an interesting shape - like a bird with outspread wings. The dramatic bedhead is a tapestry screen draped with curtains in old dark red velvet.

The Englishwoman’s Bedroom, 1985

#vintage #vintage interior #1980s #80s #interior design #home decor #fireplace #bedroom #marble #mantel #orange #wall color #bed #red velvet #brass bed #English #traditional #classical #style #home #architecture

[bunnyknickers]

2018 sketchbook tricksters!

#fanart #myart #traditional #homestuck #hom3stuck #tricksters #Jake English #Jane Crocker #Roxy lalonde #dirk strider #alpha kids

[evelyn-art-05]

I really do hope that someday parents stop thinking their kids should learn English first, or really any local language, instead of their native tongue when living somewhere

My abuelito didn't learn Spanish first when he was young because his parents didn't want him to grow up "troubled", and so he never fully learned Spanish. And when they died, he ended up forgetting how to speak it at all! He couldn't teach it to my mom, and so my mom couldn't teach it to me, and so much of the culture that we would've had is gone because of that

It's so, SO incredibly important to have sole sort of connection to your family's culture, even just through language, especially when you live in an area where it's extremely lacking!! That entire side of my family has been feeling that disconnect for so long, and my mom has been trying to make up for it by learning every traditional dish she can because learning an entire language is so difficult for her at her age

Please don't think that your kids, or that you yourself, should learn the local most spoken language because it will be "easier." It's just going to make you grieve that connection you could've had

#obviously everyone's experiences can be different #i just know what mine is #visiting CA and seeing the HUGE amounts of mexican culture was INSANE for me #it was my first time ever seeing an advertisement fully in spanish #it was wild #ive learned a lot of spanish now and im going to join my mom in learning traditional dishes #but it still sucks knowing i didnt have it from the start and that i never really will u know #languages #culture #english

[deadsh33p]

Some traditional south park fanart (i have so many more but i aint sharing WUAHAHA)

#my art #south park #stan marsh #kyle broflovski #kenny mccormick #sp style #ike brovlofski #sp fanart #traditional art #watercolors #the paper SUCKED so im proud on how they turned out #its the kind of paper that dries super fast plus gets all weird in the end #idk how to explain idk english lol #also #comic #ig

[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

[the-october-country]

The Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, originally performed at the Barthelmy Fair in 1226, a tradition which continues to this day. 

#abbots bromley horn dance #horn dance #folk dance #english traditions #autumn festivals #vintage illustration #staffordshire #folk traditions #folk customs

[s-u-w-i]

Another seven 🌼 The handsome guys never quite turn out the way I want, it's so much easier to draw orcs and creatures...

Also, I’ve decided I'll be selling the originals after I finish all the drawings (that means after Easter). But if there is any character you'd like to have in particular you can start reserving them now. By messaging me here or on [email protected] :^)

Goldberry isn't taken yet!

The prices are from 50 to 80USD (shipping included). And same as last year with the dog drawings this year also all the earnings will be sent to charities.

More characters here and here!

#my art #illustration #ink #traditional art #character design #tolkien #lotr #english literature #elrond #orcs #grishnakh #eomer #denethor #bilbo baggins #goldberry #tom bombadil

[nedeii]

#i was about to write mantanees there because i do not speak English #skytober2023 #will try to make as many as i can before real life catches up to me #sky 星を紡ぐ子どもたち #sky fanart #sky cotl #cotl fanart #sky children of the light #nedeii sky #fanart #cotl #thatskygame #skyblr #ファンアート #skytober #thatgamecompany #traditional art #inktober