Clipping:Traditional Easter Ballplaying . . . Where Fast Day Play was Born?

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Date Saturday, April 5, 1890
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EASTER LEGENDS: The Spring-Tide Festival of All Ages

 

Most of the customs and traditions connected with this festival are an inheritance from our heather ancestors.

[Comments given on ancient Egyptian and Persian spring rituals, and on 19C egg-based European Easter rites]

In some sections (of England) the town corporation joined with great dignity with others in a game of ball on Easter Monday.  This has survived the the Fast Day games, but in some villages twelve old women were always chosen for the yearly game. 

 

 

 

 

 

Source Boston Transcript, April 5, 1890 (unsigned)
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Bruce Allardice notes that "town corporation" was a British term for what we would call a city council. 

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Can we discover more details on the tradition of mature women being central to early Easter ballplaying festivities?

 

 

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Submitted by Joanne Hulbert
Origin Email of 4/23/2020

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