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Encyclopedia Britannica



FIRMINY

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 424 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FAT-FLA
FIRMINY , a town of central France in the department of Loire, 8 m. S.W. of St
Etienne
  by
rail
 . Pop. (1go6) 15,778. It has important coal mines known since the 14th
century
  and extensive manufactures of
iron
  and steel goods, including railway material, machinery and cannon. Fancy woollen hosiery is also manufactured.
FIRST-FOOT, in British folklore, especially that of the north and
Scotland
 , the first person who crosses the threshold on Christmas or New Year's Eve. Good or ill luck is believed to be brought the
house
  by First-Foot, and a female First-Foot is regarded with dread. In Lancashire a light-haired man is as unlucky as a woman, and it became a custom for dark-haired males to hire themselves out to " take the New Year in." In Worcestershire luck is ensured by stopping the first
carol
 -
singer
  who appears and leading him through the
house
 . In Yorkshire it must always be a male who enters the house first, but his fairness is no objection. In
Scotland
  first-footing was always more elaborate than in England, involving a subsequent entertainment.


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