{"id":2123,"date":"2016-10-13T15:53:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2016-10-13T15:53:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:53:23","slug":"two-free-book-on-wassailing-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2016\/10\/13\/two-free-book-on-wassailing-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Two free books on wassailing in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple wassailing is an ancient tradition, taking the form of a New Year procession. I was pleased to see it revived recently in Stoke-on-Trent.  The apple and fruit trees of a district are each visited in turn. The men sing to them, toast their health in cider and the boys tap their trunks with whippy sticks in a sun-wise direction, in order to &#8216;wake up&#8217; the trees and &#8216;turn them back toward life&#8217;.  The wonders of digitisation have recently turned up two excellent free books on the topic, written by a Cambridge academic and published by Manchester University Press.<\/p>\n<p>* J. Rendel Harris, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escholar.manchester.ac.uk\/uk-ac-man-scw:1m60\">&#8220;Origin and meaning of apple cults&#8221;<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncassidy.org.uk\/bulletin\/\">Bulletin of the John Rylands Library<\/a><\/em>, 1919, Vol.5, Nos. 1-2, pages 29-74.  Later published as a pamphlet by Manchester University Press and Longmans. <\/p>\n<p>* J. Rendel Harris, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=umn.319510021007527;view=2up;seq=2\">The Masque of the Apple<\/a><\/em>, Manchester University Press, 1920.  This attempts to embody the traditions and beliefs in a series of historically accurate masques (short plays).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wassailing-devon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/wassailing-devon.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"wassailing-devon\" width=\"640\" height=\"486\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple wassailing is an ancient tradition, taking the form of a New Year procession. I was pleased to see it revived recently in Stoke-on-Trent. The apple and fruit trees of a district are each visited in turn. The men sing to them, toast their health in cider and the boys tap their trunks with whippy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}