Medieval villagers used to scream at apple trees while pouring spiced booze on their roots to scare away evil spirits and guarantee next year's cider harvest, and that thousand-year-old ritual is called wassailing. The drink they shared, wassail, isn't just mulled cider with spices. It's a communal bowl of hot ale or hard cider fortified with sherry, loaded with roasted apples that disintegrate into fluffy bits called Lamb's Wool, and designed to force people to serve each other and toast together because you literally cannot wassail alone.