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Daft Days. The Twelve Days of Christmas, or the period that begins on Christmas eve and ends on Epiphany or Uphalieday. Until comparatively modern times it was the one recognized public holiday of the year and, traditionally, it was celebrated with gay abandon and communal feasting. There is a good description of the festival in Edinburgh in the poem ‘The Daft Days’ by ROBERT Fergusson, which was published in Ruddiman’s THE Weekly MAGAZINE, OR EDINBURGH AMUSEMENT of 2 January 1772. NEIL Munro also used the phrase as the title for one of his novels.
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Royle, T. (1984). D. In: The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07587-4_4
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