Talk:Wassailing

Opinion/Boken link[edit]

This account is lacking in several known tours of wassailing in England as well as other forms in Wales Isle of Mann etc. At least one of the links is broken This link should be added:

Wassail Epicenter http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/wassail.html

Hutmanfawkes (talk) 04:07, 23 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Moved (by fabiform | talk 14:56, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)) from the article:

Obviously the writer has never been to Somerset: the home of cider. Wassailing occurs in the autumn. Evil spirits are frightened from the trees with loud noises or guns. This ensures a good harvest and plenty for all. Do get it right.

From the article: However most people insist on wassailing on 'Old Twelvey Night' (January 17) Most? Insist? High degree of subjectivity there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.102.41.233 (talk) 19:41, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion[edit]

"The traditional practice of wassailing came to an end with the development of industrial capitalism and a wealthy and powerful bourgeois class with little interest in continuing this age old holiday tradition of symbolic exchange they saw as undermining mundane economic exchange in the market economy."

Yikes, someone is a bit bitter. Not clear how this lasted this long. Anyway, opinion such as this has no place in Wikipedia, as I think should be obvious.

If someone wants to extract some verifiable fact from this, feel free; I just removed it completely. --71.235.102.239 04:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

yeesh... earmark for later work Blueaster 04:34, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

An anonymous user deleted the quote above from the talk page and just inserted the word "wrong". The quote is at best highly dubious and doesn't have a place in the article unless there are sources to back it up. but just because it is probably wrong doesn't mean that it should be deleted from the talk page.--RLent (talk) 15:51, 29 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

...but the statement is correct. ~wikiuser —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.255.180.66 (talk) 22:49, 20 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism[edit]

"sailing is the practice of idiots going door-to-door singing Carol Smiley love songs"

Obviously this page was vandalized and I don't know how to revert all the changes that have been made recently. Could somebody please fix it. --Anon. 12 January 2008

Reference[edit]

Article notes "An old rhyme goes:" - does somebody have a reference to where the rhyme might be found? thanks mgaved (talk) 12:54, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It probably comes from here, though that's not much of a source. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:36, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have found it in a Victorian poetry collection, attributed to Robert Herrick. My version has slightly different spelling - perhaps modernised. I haven't been able to find the first publication online anywhere; and it's not in Hesperides. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:59, 5 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

House-Visiting Wassailing[edit]

https://traditionalcustomsandceremonies.wordpress.com/tag/wassail/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kappasi (talk • contribs) 20:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Wassail[edit]

An actual alcoholic drink (formula), a cocktail of an ancient recipe! 138.207.175.112 (talk) 21:48, 3 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]