At Easter we bake
pancakes (_fladen_); at Whitsuntide we make bowers of green
boughs, and keep the feast of the tabernacle in Saxony and
Thuringia; and we drink, Whitsun-beer for eight days. In Saxony,
we also keep the feast of St. Panthalion with drinking and eating
sausages and roast legs of mutton stuffed with{11} garlic. To the
_kirmse_, or church feast, which happens only once a year, four
or five neighbouring villages go together, and it is a
praiseworthy custom, as it maintains a neighbourly and kindly
feeling among the people."
The pleasing account of the English harvest feast in Gage's _Hengrave_,
calls it _Hochay_. Pegge, in his Supplement to Grose's _Provincial Words,
Hockey_. Dr. Nares notices it in his _Glossary_, and refers to an account
of its observance in Suffolk given in the _New Monthly Magazine_ for
November, 1820. See also Major Moor's _Suffolk Words_, and Forby's
_Vocabulary of East Anglia_, who says that Bloomfield, the rustic poet of
Suffolk, calls it the _Horky_; Dr. Nares having said that Bloomfield does
not venture on this provincial term for a _Harvest-home_.
S.W. SINGER.
May 14. 1850.
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