Round about our coal-fire: or, Christmas entertainments

Containing, Christmas gambols, tropes, figures, &c. with abundance of fiddle-faddle-stuff; such as stories of fairies, ghosts, hobgoblins, witches, bull-beggars, rawheads and bloody-bones, merry plays, &c. for the diversion of company in a cold winter-evening, besides several curious pieces relating to the history of old Father Christmas; setting forth what hospitality has been, and what it is now

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First published:
18th century
Language: English

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Traditions: Ritual magic and grimoires, Witchcraft and folk magic

Subjects: Witchcraft, Magic tricks, Amusements, Christmas

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires and Witchcraft and folk magic.

Ritual magic and grimoires
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.
- “Magic”· via Open Library
- “Magic”· in subject
Witchcraft and folk magic
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “witches” in the subtitle, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and “witches” in the edition subtitle.
- “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
- “witches”· in subtitle
- “Witchcraft”· in subject
- “witches”· in edition subtitle

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Containing, Christmas gambols, tropes, figures, &c. with abundance of fiddle-faddle-stuff; such as stories of fairies, ghosts, hobgoblins, witches, bull-beggars, rawheads and bloody-bones, merry plays, &c. for the diversion of company in a cold winter-evening, besides several curious pieces relating to the history of old Father Christmas; setting forth what hospitality has been, and what it is now Open Library record	1732	Printed for J. Roberts in Warwick-Lane, and sold by the booksellers in town and country. Price 1 s.	English	—	No ebook	Open Library (opens in a new tab)