Bonus: Christmas Crimes!

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Join Annie and Jenny as they get in the festive mood and journey back to the Yuletide crimes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reformation resulted in the banning of many celebrations, including yuletide festivities. Those caught celebrating were brought before the Kirk Sessions, and this resulted in strangely detailed records of the celebratory practices of the time. Guising and cross-dressing, dancing, eating goose, and baking bread were all punishable by law, listen in to find out more about each tradition.This episode is sponsored by Scotland Shop. If you are tempted to check out some of Scotland Shop’s beautiful tartan garments and fabrics, please follow this link to Scotland Shop. https://hubs.ly/H0-0fjl0You can support Stories of Scotland on Patreon! www.patreon.com/storiesofscotland References:Barbara Hector, Is Hogmanay Dying Out? Not in Rural Scotland, Aberdeen Press and Journal, December 1932.Dictionaries of the Scots Language: https://dsl.ac.uk/Digitised Kirk Session Minutes, National Records of Scotland: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk Margo Todd, Profane Pastime and the Reformed Community: The Persistence of Popular Festivities in Early Modern Scotland, Journal of British Studies, 2000.Margo Todd, The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland, 2002.Robert Crammond, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, Vol 1, Blackie, Fullarton & Co., 1828.William Crammond, Steven Ree (ed), The records of Elgin, 1234-1800, The New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1903. Get bonus content on Patreon

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1:07.8	Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland, the festive edition.
1:12.8	I'm Jenny, an outrageous outlaw.
1:15.7	And I'm Annie, and my only crime is how much I love archives.
1:20.8	You better watch out. If they catch you for that, they're going to put you away for a long time.
1:24.6	No, Jenny, it's me who puts the archives away for a long time.
1:28.3	That's how archives work.
1:31.3	This is a holiday bonus episode to thank all of you wonderful listeners who have rated and reviewed us.
1:38.3	We've had a terrific response and so we thought we do a little bit of celebratory research. Yay!
1:45.2	This truly is an episode of me and Jenny just taking the joy of going down surreal tangents.
1:52.3	It feels like an old-school stories of Scotland episode where we just sort of while away into the weirdness of the past.
1:58.7	So today we are looking at Euletide Crime and Punishment in early modern Scotland.
2:06.0	It might seem like a bit of an odd festive bonus.
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