avfa+festivals

Festivals and Holidays http://www.carelpress.co.uk/shakespeareplays/twelfthnight/assets/Festivals.pdf
 * During the Elizabethan time period, there were many celebrated festivals
 * October 31st-Hallowmas or Halloween
 * November1st-All souls/saints day for the Christan church
 * December 24th-Christmas Eve. On this day a Yule Log was set in the fireplace to burn all Christmas long.
 * December 25th-January 6th-The Twelve Days of Christmas. This time included traditions like mummers and the wassall bowl. Mummers were like old fashioned carolers. The wassall bowl was a large bowl of apples and beer that people could pay to take a drink of.
 * January 7th-14th-Plough Monday: when people celebrated the returning to work after the Christmas holidays.
 * February 2nd-Candlemas-a day when people would form processions, while holding candles and burning the greenery used from Christmas.
 * February 14th-St. Valentine's Day. The people saw that this was the general time that birds chose theif mates so humans decided to also.
 * May 1st-May Day-the maypole was a huge tree trunk that was put up in the center of town and around it people danced, feasted, and played games.
 * June 21st-the summer solstice AKA: Midsummer's Day. The longest daylight period of the year. An all night celebration