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6 March. Ash Wednesday The first day of Lent. A holy day of fasting and repentance when ashes are smeared on the foreheads of churchgoers.

"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
#Lent #AshWednesday

12 February. Alder catkins now beginning to appear.
“Alder wood is likewise useful … for such works as are under water, for it will harden like stone.” (Evelyn 1664)

And especially for clogs:
“Alder for shoes
Do wise men choose.”
Ill C M Barker
#folklore #wildlife

5 February St Agatha’s Day. Seek a cure for sore breasts.
St Agatha, martyr, is invoked against breast disorders. She is also patroness of bellfounders & bakers.
#folklore #TuesdayThoughts

26 January. Shun winter melancholy at this dark season:

"To bedward be you merry, or have merry company about you, so that to bedward no anger nor heaviness, sorrow or pensiveness do trouble or disquiet you. "(Dietary of Health, 1547)
Ill. Jan Steen

For #BurnsNight2019 - here is Tam O'Shanter fleeing the 'Hellish Legion' pulling Meg's tail, courtesy of William Scarse. Lady Ada Lovelace named her beloved if "very wild and ... quite vicious" stallion Tom O'Shanter #folklore #horses #poetry

@Amanda_Vickery @Art_VintageNH A different shape, I'd say. These are violets:

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