{"id":3575,"date":"2011-12-12T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2011-12-12T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T04:07:42","slug":"teachers-resources-for-the-winter-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3575","title":{"rendered":"Teachers’ Resources for the Winter Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ronald Hutton in the Times (London) Educational Supplement,<\/em> with special attention to mumping.<\/a><\/p>\n

The third characteristic of midwinter is charity, based on the humane impulse to assist those who not could afford to make merry (and coupled with the more practical reality that the poor might slit their wealthier neighbours\u2019 throats unless their resentments were tempered). Collecting and giving to the poor was known in variant local English terms as Thomasing, Gooding, Mumping, Hoggling or Hognelling. Able-bodied working men could earn the food and money for their household feasts by performing songs, dances or plays to please the better off – such as the Mummers\u2019 Play, Sword Dances and, of course, carols.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Down the Forest Service road from my house is the hobby ranch of a rich doctor whom we call “the squire,” not entirely in fun. Maybe M. and I should recruit friends to carol at his house and see what he’d give us. Or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ronald Hutton in the Times (London) Educational Supplement, with special attention to mumping. The third characteristic of midwinter is charity, based on the humane impulse to assist those who not could afford to make merry (and coupled with the more practical reality that the poor might slit their wealthier neighbours\u2019 throats unless their resentments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-yule"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-VF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":712,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=712","url_meta":{"origin":3575,"position":0},"title":"‘The Goddess comes through’","author":"Chas S. 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