folk-customs

Martin and Nicholas in northern folk-customs have been made along various lines.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Whatever secular dramatic impulses remained in the Dark Ages showed themselves not in public and organized performances, but obscurely in the songs and mimicry of minstrels and in traditional folk-customs.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Mannhardt and Feilberg hold that this Swedish St. St.phen is not a historical personage but a mythical figure, like many other saints, and that his legend, so bound up with horses, was an attempt to account for the folk-customs practised on the day dedicated to St. St.phen the first martyr.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

Innocents '(December 28) -- have still various folk-customs associated with them, in some cases purely secular, in others hallowed by the Church.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

We need not linger over this feast, for it was not attended by folk-customs, and there is nothing to connect it with modern survivals.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

_Weihnachtsbaum_ is very possible, but on the other hand it has closer parallels in certain folk-customs that in no way suggest Roman or Greek influence.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

The opinion that the gardens of Adonis are essentially charms to promote the growth of vegetation, especially of the crops, and that they belong to the same class of customs as those spring and mid-summer folk-customs of modern Europe which I have described else-where, does not rest for its evidence merely on the intrinsic probability of the case.

Chapter 33. The Gardens of Adonis 1922

The reader may have observed that in modern folk-customs the corn-spirit is generally represented either by a Corn-mother (Old Woman, etc.) or by a Maiden (Harvest-child, etc.), not both by a Corn-mother and by a Maiden.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

The opinion that the gardens of Adonis are essentially charms to promote the growth of vegetation, especially of the crops, and that they belong to the same class of customs as those spring and mid-summer folk-customs of modern Europe which I have described else-where, does not rest for its evidence merely on the intrinsic probability of the case.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

As thus explained, the Thesmophoria has its analogies in the folk-customs of Northern Europe which have been already described.

Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals. § 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse 1922