In the UK in recent years, many modern wassails have been coined, on the model of the orchard wassail. I can think of at least half a dozen in Gloucestershire. These "new" wassails are usually in January and often involve Morris dancers, plus of course cider (alcoholic), beer and song. The fact that wassailing was often at Christmas time, not January, and was house-to-house, not orchard, is largely lost to sight. A few traditional groups, such as the Bodmin wassailers in Cornwall, still go house-to-house.

For a write up of this, see
http://www.gloschristmas.com/wassail/gloucestershire-wassail-3/

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