Folklore of Staffordshire

The year ahead

Told of Staffordshire, but not tied to a day of the year.

Folklore from the old calendars

Rosemary for remembrance No longer kept StaffordshireA correspondent from the Staffordshire Moorlands wrote to Hone that flowers and herbs were given meanings that went with the sound of their names, rosemary standing for remembrance and rejoicing, gillyflowers for gentleness and marigolds for mirth and marriage.
St Chad’s dust at Lichfield No longer kept StaffordshireSt Chad's bones were moved to Lichfield about the year 700, and his shrine drew so many pilgrims that the village grew into a city.
The sluggard-waker of Trysull No longer kept Shropshire, StaffordshireOn 17 April 1725 John Rudge left the parish of Trysull twenty shillings a year to pay a poor man to go about the church during the sermon, keeping the people awake and the dogs out.
The Wychnor flitch No longer kept StaffordshireBeside the Dunmow flitch, Hone set out the similar custom of Wychnor in the Honour of Tutbury, from Dr Plot.