Martinmas, Martlemas, St Martin’s Day, Martinalia, Bacchus, The Feast of Gut-puddings, and a lot of repeated weatherlore…
1 November 2020 – Samhain
I might have slightly overdone it yesterday with the old folklore. I managed 7½ out of my 11 Halloween tasks, and cabbage leaf update: I…
#FolkloreFOMO – November 2020
Two and a smidgen months to go! We’re now entering the eleventh month of the project, and no-one is more surprised than me to find…
24 October 2020 – Crystal Ball
It was supposed to be an easy win today. Pour a load of black ink into a Christmas tree decoration and call it a crystal…
22 October 2020 – Ichthyomancy
This morning, for reasons various, I was feeling out of sorts, so I finally opened my Halloween care package which I’d been saving for such…