Abstract
It is w. en-known that at certain seasons of the year manifestations, comparable to Pickard-Cambridge's Rural Dionysia, occur and persons ‘fantastically dressed’ perambulate the countryside, house to house, village to village, soliciting money or goods in kind in return for a bestowal of ‘luck’. Local historians, memorialists of old customs, sharp-eyed contributors to Notes and Queries have all remarked upon them, and many have set down what they saw with enough precision and occasional illustration to provide material for analysis and comparison with what can be seen in Europe or elsewhere in similar manifestations, as well as with pictorial illustrations from the past such as the marginal ornaments of Le Roman d'Alexandre the footnotes supplied by Ben Jonson to his devices for masques, and Inigo Jones's designs for the same seasonal entertainments.
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