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    What is the connection between a wren, a totem and holming?

    Question #62318. Asked by mochyn. (Feb 06 06 3:27 PM)


    lanfranco

    		These are, as best I can tell, Welsh holiday customs. "Holming" refers to beating young women (or the last person to get out of bed) with holly-branches. "Hunting the Wren" was/is a Twelfth Night custom in which young men captured a wren, took it around to various houses in a decorated cage, and received food and drink.

    "Totem" may refer to Calennig, a New Year's custom, when young boys carried various items -- evergreen branches and water, fruit, nuts, etc. to houses for luck and received small coins in exchange for them. One site I saw said that they carry fruit with three legs made out of sticks or twigs, and these are the "totems."

    http://www.britannia.com/wales/culture2.html

    Feb 06 06, 5:24 PM
    mochyn

    		yay , lovely Welsh Christmas traditions

    Feb 06 06, 6:25 PM

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