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Rick Stein's Food Heroes Christmas Special, BBC TV, December 2005. 2 half-hour episodes, also aired as a 1-hour programme. Betjeman and Me: Rick Stein's Story, August 2006; Rick Stein and the Japanese Ambassador, BBC Two, 2006; Rick Stein in Du Maurier Country, BBC Two, May 2007; Fishy Treats and Simple Eats, Japanese Food Network, Autumn 2007
The Mock is a Cornish Yule Log, which is marked with a stick figure and then burnt on the Montol bonfire. In the early years of the festival, the bonfire was a beacon was lit at Lescudjack Hill Fort , in a similar vein to the beacons lit by the Old Cornwall Society at midsummer.
Guise dancing was observed in the late 19th century by Cornish antiquarian M. A. Courtney who reported that the practice had been largely eliminated by 1890 in Penzance due to a decline in the traditional nature of the celebrations and a rise in anti-social behaviour, the practice however could be found in St Ives, Newlyn and Mousehole St Ives finally ceasing in the 1970s.
'Wassail' is not of Cornish origin, probably migrated as a 'custom' from Wessex as it is of Saxon/Norse origin, but obviously adopted as a way to hedge bets for a good cider-apple harvest, and still celebrated: New Twelfth Night (6 January): In the 1950s, "carolling" was the custom) Knill Ceremony: St Ives: Still celebrated (started 1801)
The "Sans Day Carol", also known as "St. Day Carol", "The Holly Bears a Berry" and "The Holly Tree" [1] is a traditional Cornish carol named after the Cornish village of St Day, where it was found around the turn of the twentieth century.
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The Merry Maidens at St Buryan Celebration of St Piran's Day in Penzance. Cornish mythology is the folk tradition and mythology of the Cornish people.It consists partly of folk traditions developed in Cornwall and partly of traditions developed by Britons elsewhere before the end of the first millennium, often shared with those of the Breton and Welsh peoples.