Throwing The Stocking - Posset Pots And Their Role In Bridal Bedchamber Divination Rituals

Ivan Day

The starting points for this talk is the 1740 drawing Wedding Night by Marcellus Laroon (image) and an anonymous poem The Progress of Matrimony (London: 1733) - both refer to the custom of bedding the bride. Posset and posset pots were a major feature.