The traditional games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with tunes, singing-rhymes, and methods of playing according to the variants extant and recorded in different parts of the Kingdom; (1894)
Gomme, Alice Bertha · London : D. Nutt · leaf 145
any other part of the kingdom, and seemsalways to have been there held in great respect and veneration.Many superstitions also attach to the tree. It is possible fromthese circumstances that the game descends from an old customof encircling the tree as an act of worship, and the allusion tothe rags… … in which the act of winding is indicated. There is more reasonfor this when we consider how easy the notion of clock-winding would creep in after the old veneration for the sacredalder tree had ceased to exist. See BuUiheisle, Wind up the Bush Faggot, Wind upthe Watch. Ezzeka qj^ Ezzeka did one day…
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