From everyday customs, rural lifestyles, and the major and minor festivals of the year, with a wealth of ideas and instructions for floral decorations, crafts, games, and songs. Village life: home and community, daily life and Sunday, religious life. Festivals from Candlemas to Ascension: Carnival, Easter, May Day. From summer's arrival to autumn: Pentecost, Corpus Christi, Midsummer, harvest festivals, church consecration, Martinmas. Advent and Christmas time: St. Andrew, St. Barbara, St. Nicholas, the knocking nights, New Year, Epiphany, and many other celebrations.