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…
28 October 2020 – St Simon and St Jude’s Day
Not one, not two, but three calendar customs collided today. And seeing as I was curious, hungry, and wet, I tried them all. First the…
16 October 2020 – Spring Prediction
Two bits of coincidentally intertwined weatherlore today. The first, it was a fine(ish), if nippy day today, just as last night’s rainbow predicted. Folklore for…