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Thread #125833   Message #3681033
Posted By: MGM·Lion
29-Nov-14 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: Origins: The Gower Wassail
Subject: RE: Origins: The Gower Wassail
There are also, unsurprisingly, verses/phrases &c associated with the Pace-Egging tradition of the North of England, and other variants of the mumming tradition which have been adapted to house-visiting and singing for 'treats'*. The name "Pace Egg" is probably a variant of Pasch/Paschal Egg ("'Paschal' - adjective: of or pertaining to Easter" [Wiktionary]) -- the traditional Easter egg which has long existed in variant forms, such as gaily painted hardboiled eggs &c, before settling into its most usual present form of a hollow ovine chocolate confection decoratively wrapped in silver paper.

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*See entry "Mummers' play" in Wikipedia