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| Museum Meermanno, MMW 10 D 7, f. 85v (10th c.) |
"If anyone does what many do on the first day of January, that is to say, goes around in the costume of a stag or a calf (which still remains from pagan custom), he must do penance for three years, because this is demoniacal."
Burgundian Penitential (c. 700)The first decision of the New Year: do you play it safe, or do you have one awesome day of pagan animal-themed revelry and then do penance until 2017? It's your call.
