Talk:Wassailing
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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.
[edit] Opinion
"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)
yeesh... earmark for later work Blueaster 04:34, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
