I have read several places that in addition to adjacent landowners
serving as processioners, teenage boys were desirable as they would or
might remember the boundaries long after their elders were gone and also
long after the white oak had died or the boulder been moved or the river
course changed or dried up.
Knowledge that a person was a processioner provides solid information
that the person lived on or near the property being processioned.
Judy Gabor
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