United Kingdom Scholars have observed similarities between the Yule log and the folk custom of the ashen faggot, recorded solely in the West Country of England. First recorded at the beginning of the 19th century, the ashen faggot is burnt on Christmas Eve, is associated with a variety of folk beliefs, and is "made of smaller ash sticks bound into a faggot with strips of hazel, withy, or bramble".Simpson and Roud (2003:11). G. R. Wiley observes that the ashen faggot may have developed out of the Yule log.Wiley (1983:42).
United Kingdom Scholars have observed similarities between the Yule log and the folk custom of the ashen faggot recorded solely in the West Country of England. First recorded at the beginning of the 19th century, the ashen faggot is burnt on Christmas Eve is associated with a variety of folk beliefs, and is "made of smaller ash sticks bound into a faggot with strips of hazel, withy, or bramble".Simpson and Roud (200311). G. R. Wiley observes that the ashen faggot may have developed out of the Yule log.Wiley (1983:42).