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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.

21 December. Feast of St Thomas & Winter Solstice. Old Moore predicted in 1701 “The nights are now at the longest; and many sly villainies will be acted.” #Wintersolstice #FestiveFriday

18 December. Feed your bees.:
“Go look to thy bees if the hive be too light,
Set honey and water with rosemary dight,
Which set in a dish full of sticks in the hive,
From danger of famine will save them alive.” (Good Husbandry, 1573)
#folklore #Calendar #Wisdom