Glen L CreasyWassailing, which I always associated with spiced hard cider and Christmas carols, turns out (also) to be a pagan fertility rite focussing on fruit trees, which is gaining in popularity!
Inside Europe did a story on this the week before last (starts at 48:15)...
https://www.dw.com/en/more-trouble-for-uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer/audio-76057779
More detail on the celebration here
https://www.discoverbritain.com/history/traditions/wassailing/
More trouble for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer?
A UK by-election that could spell trouble for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a wrap-up of the Munich Security Conference, a look at the Berlinale and whether it’s still political, and France’s last newspaper hawker. Then: efforts to rebuild Aghdam, US trans people seeking asylum in the Netherlands, and a pagan tradition seeing a revival — wassailing. + film.macht.kritisch https://shorturl.at/OTkz1 +