Jan 22, 2016 · The aim of the Apple Wassail is to encourage a good crop of apples in the year's harvest and it is usually accompanied by noisy shouting and ...
Jan 8, 2018 · The purpose is to awake the cider apple trees from their winter slumbers and to scare away evil spirits to ensure a good harvest of fruit in the Autumn.
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The shotguns are fired to drive away any evil spirits lurking in the branches of the trees which would spoil the apple crop, and the toast is provided for the ...
Jan 31, 2016 · Wassail is said to derive from a Saxon word 'was hael' meaning 'good health' and it applied to two related by separate customs.
Wassailing ... In Wales, twelve fires are lit (representing the months of the year) around the orchard, and in some areas shotguns are discharged above the trees ...
It is a ceremony traditionally held in orchards across the cider-making areas of England, on or around Old Twelfth Night - the 17th of January. Believed to date ...
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Jan 22, 2024 · The word wassail comes from the Norse and old English traditional drinking salute; 'Was hael' meaning 'good health'.
Jan 3, 2010 · The wassailers then move on to the next orchard; singing, shouting, banging pots and pans, and even firing shotguns, generally making as ...
Jan 6, 2022 · Practised for centuries throughout Britain on Twelfth Night, the act of Wassailing occurs around two weeks after the Winter Solstice, which is normally around ...
A shotgun is fired overhead to scare away evil spirits, and the group sings the following being the (last verse):. Old Apple tree, old apple tree; We've come ...
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