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21 January Feast of St Agnes
Eclipses are and have been ever looked upon as Ominous to Mankind, as denoting Revolutions of States and Kingdoms, Deaths of Illustrious Persons, Wars, Pestilence, and diverse other Calamities. (Almanack,1752)
#predictions #EclipseLunar

*17 January Take good care of your hounds in hard weather.

‘If it be a hard Winter, after your hounds are fed suffer them for an hour or two to stretch themselves before the fire.’ (Country Contentments, 1615)
#dogs #folklorethursday

16 January - very cold weather at this season.

‘Bread and milk for breakfast,
And woollen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast,
On the cold days of the year.’ (Christina Rossetti)
Ill. Walter Crane
#birds #wildlife

15 January. The Voice of the Stars:
“All publick Negotiations are at a Stand, and the Minds of the people in general are filled with ambiguous Thoughts about the Events of this Year’s Transactions.” Old Moore 1752
#predictions #almanac #Timeless #DejaVu

12 January Shepherd’s purse continues to bloom even in this bleak season:

Though I’m poor to human eyes
Really I am rich and wise.
Every tiny flower I shed
Leaves a heart-shaped purse instead.
(Cecily Mary Barker)

#Flowers #nature

8 January. Cherish farm animals in bad weather:

“By brambles and bushes, in pasture too full
Poor sheep be in danger, and loseth their wool.
Now therefore thy ewe upon lambing so near,
Desireth in pasture, that all may be clear.’ (Good Husbandry, 1575)
#folklore #wildlife

6 January. The 12th Day of Christmas.
Epiphany – Greek for ‘manifestation’, because Christ was today revealed to the Three Kings.
‘Now Christmas is past
Twelfth Day is the last,
To the Old Year adieu,
Great joy to the New!’
#folklore #TwelfthNight

2 January. The Eighth Day of Christmas. Guard your health:
‘Cold may turn to violent Fevers even at this time of the year, and send some to the Shades... and an eminent Lady is afflicted with much Sorrow, if not Death.’ (Moore’s Almanac, 1801) #prophecy #HappyNewYear

The answer is the #moon. Look out at tonight's #fullmoon called the cold moon. A mystical moon by #Gothic Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.