cloved fruit (was: SC - Period Wedding)

[Marc Carlson]

>From: david friedman <ddfr at best.com>
>The practice I was referring to was not just the cloving of the fruit, but
>its use in a kissing game.

OTOH, the Wassail bowl *is* used in such a kissing game first recorded in
the 1320s.  People obviously just confused the tree decoration for the
bowl... :)

(Peter de Langtoft, cited in Hutton, Ronald, Stations of the sun, A history
of the ritual year in Britain. Oxford: OUP,1996)

I. Marc Carlson
McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa -or- Tulsa Community College West
Campus LRC
marc-carlson at utulsa.edu/lib_imc at centum.utulsa.edu/lib_imc at hotmail.com
http:www.geocities.com/athens/parthenon/5923
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