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    Lughnasadh. The name 'Lammas' comes from Old English hlafmæsse meaning "loaf mass". Several antiquarians suggested that the name 'Lammas' came from 'lamb mass'...
    20 KB (2,363 words) - 11:53, 14 November 2024
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    spring (February 1), Bealtaine bannock for summer (May 1), Lughnasadh or Lammas bannock for autumn harvests (August 1), and Samhain bannock for winter (end...
    9 KB (822 words) - 14:10, 31 October 2024
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    Corn husk doll (redirect from Wheat doll)
    other cultures, (specifically Western) corn dollies are used to celebrate Lammas. Corn dollies are magical charms thought to protect the home, livestock...
    4 KB (421 words) - 16:52, 2 October 2023
  • hallowed bread [hláf—hence “loaf”] which is hallowed on Lammas Day". According to Wilson (2011), "at Lammas, the fruits of the first cereal harvest were baked...
    67 KB (8,087 words) - 22:15, 26 September 2024
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    wheat varieties, 'White Lammas' and 'Red Lammas', which had been grown successfully in the British Isles and North America. Wheat was grown at Jindabyne...
    17 KB (1,807 words) - 01:21, 25 September 2024
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    called Lammas, meaning 'loaf Mass'. The Latin prayer to hallow the bread is given in the Durham Ritual. Farmers made loaves of bread from the fresh wheat crop...
    12 KB (1,669 words) - 00:40, 19 October 2024
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    feast celebrated at the beginning of November, corresponding to Halloween Lammas or Lughnasadh: celebration of first harvest/grain harvest in Paganism and...
    13 KB (1,333 words) - 23:06, 27 October 2024
  • Litha (Norse): 21–22 June, summer solstice, Celtic midsummer Lughnasadh/Lammas (Celtic): 1–2 August, Celtic first day of autumn Mabon (Norse): 21–22 September...
    26 KB (2,338 words) - 20:02, 15 November 2024
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    The reaping of the corn crops of Ireland was going on twenty days before Lammas 1 August, and the trees were scorched by the heat of the sun. Moody, TW;...
    34 KB (1,090 words) - 20:52, 13 November 2024
  • Saturday and Sunday around Lammas in 1537, telling the Lokkars that it was a "charitable fast". Buck offered Brigge a peck of wheat and half a yard of linen...
    5 KB (555 words) - 04:07, 8 April 2024
  • as Tromsø, to facilitate it. Norwegians mainly traded fish for flour and wheat from Russians. The trading went on throughout the sunny months of the year...
    18 KB (1,607 words) - 19:12, 20 October 2024
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    of rapid expansion, parts of it were preserved as public parks, such as Lammas Park and Ealing Common. Pitzhanger Manor and the extensive 28 acres (110...
    51 KB (5,854 words) - 10:24, 13 November 2024
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    First Fruits blessed at the church has been celebrated through the feast of Lammas (Loaf Mass Day) in Western Christianity. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity...
    15 KB (2,080 words) - 19:46, 2 August 2024
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    session was also traditionally cited as 39 & 40 G. 3. Distillation from Wheat, etc. Act 1799 (39 & 40 Geo. 3. c. 7) Duties on Pensions, etc. Act 1799...
    114 KB (978 words) - 20:25, 4 November 2024
  • christenings would occur, so it became associated with the color white. Lammas Day: 1 August, feast of St. Peter ad Vincula was a corruption of loaf-mass...
    119 KB (15,186 words) - 13:04, 21 October 2024
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    further Time, the prohibition of the making of Low Wines and Spirits, from Wheat, Barley, Malt, or any other Sort of Grain, or from Meal, Flour, or Bran...
    49 KB (573 words) - 22:34, 4 November 2024
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    and enclosing the Old Whole Year Lands, Common Fields, Half Year Lands, Lammas Meadows, Heaths, Commons, and Waste Lands, within the Parish of Marham,...
    113 KB (701 words) - 14:10, 8 November 2024
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    1772 An Act for enclosing the Common Fields, Break Lands, Half-Year Lands, Lammas Meadows, Heaths, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Roudham...
    128 KB (898 words) - 12:43, 11 November 2024
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    Stratford Marsh, an area of common Lammas land, where inhabitants had common rights to graze horses and cattle between Lammas Day (1 August) and Lady Day (25...
    39 KB (5,010 words) - 07:03, 16 September 2024
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    weddings, holidays, and other special occasions. And consists of bulgur wheat immersed in ghee with lamb and yogurt, and served hot with fried kibbeh...
    238 KB (27,602 words) - 14:36, 14 November 2024
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