This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...all of a comic or ludicrous kind." Konige " " Feast of the Three Holy Kings," has been generally observed from a very early period as a popular and domestic holiday. "Cologne, of course, celebrates with great pomp and noise and public festivity, the day of the venerated Kings whose relics she guards Everywhere it is ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...all of a comic or ludicrous kind." Konige " " Feast of the Three Holy Kings," has been generally observed from a very early period as a popular and domestic holiday. "Cologne, of course, celebrates with great pomp and noise and public festivity, the day of the venerated Kings whose relics she guards Everywhere it is the children's favorite holiday. In many places fairs are held with booths full of toys, trinkets, and confectionary; while masked or fantastically decorated processions roam about the streets headed by three crowned children. Even in sober, methodical, commercial Lutheran Hamburg, business is suspended Friendly presents are given and all the children made happy by their holiday wealth as well as by their holiday frolicks. The morning opens with merry chimes from the church towers, the streets are vocal all day with the chants and carols of chorister-boys, in houses, public and private, rises the smell of the feast, mixed with the perfumes of flowers and of Rhein wein On that sixth of January night, in that far northern city swept by keen blasts from the North Sea, it must be a wild night, indeed, which can prevent the streets from being vocal with music and song..... Throughout the Netherlands, whether Belgian or Batavian, in both branches of the separated but kindred people, Flemish and Low Dutch, this same festival ' de Drinckoningenfeest' is observed by all classes. It is kept more as a social holiday by the Hollanders, and in Flanders with more of the external ceremonial of Cologne; but in both, the general custom of election by lot prevails, and in both there is a display and consumption of cakes and 'cookies' of all sorts, which would put Herrick's 'mighty cakes' out of countenance." In our own metropolis, w...
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