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Carshalton #Wassail A fabulous tradition brought to life by @blackswanbordermorris and many of the @cryerfolk at @honeywoodmuseum and The adjacent Ecology Centre. You can see @allsaintscarshalton looming in the background. At this time of year we have to wake the fruit frees!
January 2023 booklet preorders are open
I have decided that the bonus will be a keychain of the little wassailing mari lwyd
Overseas preorders are accepted and will be sent once RM allows (digital copy to be sent)
Only 20 physical copies available! Link below!
Another William Morris inspired Mari Lwyd Wassail drawing. The mari’s are blessing the apple tree for a good harvest…and toast….
Wassail!
Special Yankee Doodle Spies redux: Twelfth Night
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A very Merry #Yule to all who celebrate, may your Wassail cup overflow with mead and spices!
(1920s Art Deco reprint by Vintage Images UK, artist possibly Erté? Though the style isn't entirely compatible.)
#WinterSolstice #Solstice
Day 11 Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green,
Here we come a-wand'ring
So fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail, too,
And God bless you, and send you
A Happy New Year,
And God send you a Happy New Year.
Day 6 of my illustration advent calendar:
Working with Outlaw design agency I created the artwork for @cornishorchards cider packaging.
Here’s their seasonal Wassail Mulled Cider, with snowy weathervane & branches.
@theartworks_inc @mendolaartists
Photo: Cornish Orchards
Mari Lwyd is a wassailing custom of South Wales; a decorated horse skull over a sack cloth. The men would carry her to local homes, where they would request entry through song and banter. If successful, the team would be permitted entry and given food and drink.
Art: yviell
The #Wassail Queen on Old Twelfth Night (17 Jan) was often a child. She would knock on the trunk of the oldest tree in the orchard & ask the fertility spirit within, known as the Apple Tree Man, “to awake”. She then placed cider-soaked bread in its branches. #FaustianFriday
Give me a Christmas with wassailing, revelry, twelve nights, demoniac carnivals, communal singing and a lord of misrule
"...the bards and harpers assembled in ancient days at this time of wassail... the tale and the song are amongst the spirits that wait on Christmas still, and charm the long winter evenings with their yet undiminished spells."
The Book of Christmas | Hervey (1888)
#GothicAdvent
Merry Yule!🍎🎄🕯️I hope your day is full of warm drinks and good company! Meri Lewyd Apple is coming a-wassailing to your home and orchard!
Smoking Bishop is a type of mulled wine, punch or wassail. It was especially popular in Victorian England at Christmas time and it is mentioned in Dickens' story A Christmas Carol.
In Wales there is a wassailing folk custom using a macabre hobby horse called the Mari Lwyd. The festive horse skeleton travels door-to-door and challenges people to “pwnco” a rhyming battle of wits.
#WyrdWednesday ✨ #GothicAdvent 🎄#YuleFolklore
The exact face I'll make when I get my first taste of wassail.