SLIDING TOOLS IN THE PAST: · Washing bat · Linseed bag · Linen cloth · 0 · Shrove ride with horses · Little bench feets upwards · Fir's branches SHROVE TUESDAY'S WEATHER WISDOMS: · When there is a melt on Shrove Tuesday, there 's gonna be short spring · When there is cold weather on Shrove Tuesda, there's gonna be cold spring · When there is a snowdrift you can get a lot of grain · Long icicles betoken long linen · Wind betoken a lot of berries · Snowfall a lot of insects in the summer SHROVE TUESDAY'S FOODS: · Bean's and pea's soup · Grit's porridge · Pig's feets · Semlas SHROVE TUESDAY'S PROPHECY: · Girls put cleared pig bones to one of the rooms in drying barn. Who's bone dog at first took in its mouth, this girl will get merried soon. · Shrove whirligig brings luck · The first women who reached to sauna, that brings her good family luck TYPICAL WORKS ON SHROVE TUESDAY
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw! But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Enter Priest, & c. in procession; the Corpse of OPHELIA, LAERTES and Mourners following; KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, their trains, & c The queen, the courtiers: who is this they follow? And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken The corse they follow did with desperate hand Fordo its own life: 'twas of some estate. Couch we awhile, and mark. Retiring with HORATIO LAERTES What ceremony else? HAMLET 175 That is Laertes, A very noble youth: mark. LAERTES What ceremony else? First Priest Her obsequies have been as far enlarged As we have warrantise: her death was doubtful; And, but that great command o'ersways the order,