 Cuthred met and overthrew him there, winning his banner, whereon was depicted a golden dragon ; in memory of which victory the custom of making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added...  Nottinghamshire - Somersetshire - Page 413by Thomas Cox - 1738Full view - About this book
 | Charles Isaac Elton - Druids and druidism - 1882 - 506 pages
...there, winning his banner, whereon was depicted a golden dragon ; in memory of which victory the custom of making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the picture of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted."... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton - Druids and Druidism - 1882 - 506 pages
...there, winning his banner, whereon was depicted a golden dragon ; in memory of which victory the custom of making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which they added the picture of a giant, was in all likelihood first instituted."... | |
 | Elford Higgens - Eretz Israel - 1893 - 98 pages
...in his " History of Oxfordshire," mentions a custom (yet within memory) at Burford, in that county, of making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve, to which, he says, not knowing for what reason, they added a giant.' — Brand, p. 176.... | |
 | John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, William Carew Hazlitt, Henry Ellis - Fasts and feasts - 1905 - 360 pages
...taken with the dress. Burf ord. — Plot mentions a custom at Burford, in Oxfordshire (within memory) of making a dragon yearly, and carrying it up and down the town in great jollity on Midsummer Eve ; to which, he says, not knowing for what reason, they added a giant. Hist, of Oxfordshire,... | |
 | Ella Fuller Maitland - English literature - 1907 - 276 pages
...expenses incurred. Dr. Plott in his History of Oxfordshire, quoted by Brand, mentions a custom at Burford of " making a dragon yearly and carrying it up and down the town on Midsummer Eve." A giant took part in the procession. Bonfires were also lit on Midsummer Eve—a... | |
 | Gerald Massey - Egypt - 1907 - 560 pages
...his History of Cambridgeshire (p. 349), mentions the custom at Burford of making a dragon annually and " carrying it up and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer Eve," to which he says, not knowing for what reason, "they added a Giant." (Brand, "Midsummer... | |
 | Gerald Massey - History - 2007 - 682 pages
...in his History of Cambridgeshire, (p 349) mentions the custom at Burford of making a dragon annually and "carrying it up and down the town in great jollity, on Midsummer Eve, to which he says, not knowing for what reason, "they added a Giant." (Brand, "Midsummer... | |
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