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Updated: May 14, 2025
ON May 28, 1828, the town of Nuremberg, in Bavaria, presented a singularly deserted appearance, as it was Whit-Monday, and most of the inhabitants were spending their holiday in the country. A cobbler, who lived in Umschlitt Square, was an exception to the general rule, but towards four o'clock he, too, thought that he would take a stroll outside the city walls.
Paris, "His. de Joseph Lebon," I., 273, 370."Archives des Affaires etrangeres," vol. 329. Letter of Gadolle, September 11, 1793. "I saw Duquesnoy, the deputy, dead drunk at Bergues, on Whit-Monday, at 11 o'clock in the evening." "Un Sejour en France, 1792 to 1796, p. 136. "His naturally savage temper is excited to madness by the abuse of strong drink.
Clearly equivalent to this is the custom observed on Whit-Monday by Russian girls in the district of Pinsk. They choose the prettiest of their number, envelop her in a mass of foliage taken from the birch-trees and maples, and carry her about through the village.
"You dare to look me in the face and tell me that Scaife is not drunk?" Very seriously, John answered, "I'm sure he's not drunk, sir." Rutford eyed the boy keenly. "Have you ever seen anybody drunk?" he demanded. "I live in the New Forest," said John, as gravely as before, "and on Whit-Monday " He was aware that he had made an impression upon this big, truculent man.
Then with a last final swing and flourish, everybody scattered for homeward ways, glad of the day's pleasure and tired enough to be glad also it was ended. The most special of occasions was a dining. Not upon any high day or holiday, such as Christmas, New Year, Jackson's Day the eighth of January Easter nor Whit-Monday, but as Mammy said: "A dinin' des, dry so."
On Whit-Sunday some of the young folks rise early to see the sun dance on the water and wash their faces in the dew. This is in preparation for the greatest holiday in the year, Whit-Monday, when all give themselves up to outdoor pleasure.
It is such as he, as little conscious of himself as the bee in a hive, who are the lucky in life, for they have the best chance of happiness: their activities are shared by all, and their pleasures are only pleasures because they are enjoyed in common; you will see them on Whit-Monday dancing on Hampstead Heath, shouting at a football match, or from club windows in Pall Mall cheering a royal procession.
The Bishop, however, soon brought all to reason, and as a punishment the men of Strood were obliged to go in procession to Rochester upon each Whit-Monday, carrying the clubs with which they had assaulted the monks. That Strood stood on the ancient way its name assures us, since it is but another form of Street or Strada, as they say in Italy.
In his hand he carries a long crook, with which he tries to catch stray dogs and children. In some parts of Bohemia on Whit-Monday the young fellows disguise themselves in tall caps of birch bark adorned with flowers. One of them is dressed as a king and dragged on a sledge to the village green, and if on the way they pass a pool the sledge is always overturned into it.
When Whitsuntide is drawing near, a general meeting of the club is convened, for the purpose of considering the subject of properties. A grand demonstration, with a procession of the members, is resolved upon: it is to come off upon Whit-Monday.
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