Happy New Year! And welcome to the very last #FolkloreFOMO post of The Everyday Lore Project. It seemed a bit daft to write a post…
31 December 2020 – New Year’s Eve
Tonight I’m going to eat grapes to the twelve strokes of midnight, as it’s said that if you eat a grape on each stroke of…
29 December 2020 – St Thomas Becket’s Day
I’ve been dabbling in a spot of domino divination today. I’m not saying that St Thomas Becket’s Day is an appropriate moment for domino divination,…
28 December 2020 – Childermass
Today is supposed to be the unluckiest day of the year, it being Childermass, or Holy Innocents’ Day, the day when it’s said Herod got…
27 December 2020 – Christmas Sunday
It’s Christmas Sunday. I’d never heard of Christmas Sunday before searching ‘what is the Sunday after Christmas called?’, but in hindsight, the name does feel…