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British Popular Customs, Present and Past

Note 92 — Dec. 25.] CHRISTMAS DAY.

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Collinson, in his History of Somersetshire (1791), alludes to the miraculous walnut-tree, which grew in the Abbey churchyard of Glastonbury, and never budded forth before the feast of St. Barnabas, viz., 11th June, and on that very day shot forth leaves, and flourished.

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