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Hocktide or Hock tide [ Heah-tit, Saxon,high festival ] was a mediaeval festival that may have celebrated the massacre of the Danes in England or the death of Harthacanute in the 11th century. Tr...
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Hocktide Hock tide Hoketide Easter Eastertide English folklore Church of England feast days ... Wilson's Almanac on Hocktide ... The Hocktide Ransom...
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In the 15th and 16th centuries, in London it was called Hob-tide.) In the English tradition, Hocktide is the Monday and Tuesday following the second Sunday after Easter (Low Sunday), ... Hocktide was for our Western ancestors such a day of high festivity and pranks. The best known of these was 'ransoming'.
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Hocktide occurred the Sunday after Easter and was a time for paying taxes, tolls and rents and for collecting any debts for the first quarter of the year. Hence the name relating to getting out of hock, debt.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Hocktide play (English folk play), a folk play formerly given at Coventry, Eng., on Hock Tuesday (the second Tuesday after Easter). ... CREATE MY Hocktide pla... NEW DOCUMENT...
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Hocktide is a very old term used to denote the Monday and Tuesday in the week following the second Tuesday after Easter. ... But as the massacre of the Danes took place on Nov. 13--the feast of St. Brice, hocktide could hardly be celebrated in the earlier part of the year. And yet there is a persistent tradition that...
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(Historical Terms) Brit History a former festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter. [from hock-, hoke- (of unknown origin) + tide1] ...
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Hocktide The second Monday and Tuesday after Easter were termed Hocktide. In the Middle Ages these were days marked with festivities and rejoicing ... The second Monday and Tuesday after Easter were termed Hocktide. In the Middle Ages these were days marked with festivities and rejoicing, although the only place that...
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I have examined John Ross, or Rouse, who must have collected his materials ... The feast, too, ... In the Christian era, the boisterous pastimes coming so soon after the austerities of the Lenten season, represent to some extent the natural flow of suppressed animal spirits which the approach of spring serves but to accentuate.
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