Seasons of the Witch! Ancient Holidays (and some not so ancient!)
Live each Season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. ~Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
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Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
Blessing of the Throats
Carnival Parade – Aruba
Cordova Ice Worm Day
Create-A-Vacuum Day
Day the Music Died (according to Don McLean)
Dump Your “Significant Jerk” Day
Fasching Sunday – Austria,Germany
Foundation of the Vietnamese Communist Party – Vietnam
Four Chaplains Memorial Day
Heroes’ Day – Mozambique
Homemade Soup Day
King Frost Day
Last day of the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries
Liberty Heroes Day – Sao Tome & Principe
Magnolia and Fish Jubilee – Fairy
Martyr’s Day – Sao Tome
National Carrot Cake Day
National Men’s Grooming Day
National Stuffed Mushroom Day
Obscurity Day
Patient Recognition Day
Powamu Festival – Hopi
San Blaise – Paraguay
Setsubun – Japan
Setsubun – Shinto
Setsubun -This Japanese holiday marks the official end of winter, and is the last remnant of the old Japanese festival calendar, before it was Westernized and New Year’s Day moved to January 1st
Setsubun Bean /Throwing Festival – Japan
Sheep Day -The ten days beginning with Chinese New Year are named after animals and plants. The fourth day is Sheep Day.
Shrovetide
Sri Lanka Independence Day
St. Andrew Corsini’s Day (patron against quarrels, sudden death)
St. Anskar’s Day, patron of Denmark – Iceland
St. Blaise’s Day (patron of sick cattle, wool combers; against throat diseases; Western)
St. Gilbert of Sempringham’s Day
St. Isidore of Pelusium’s Day
St. John de Brito’s Day (patron of Portugal)
St. Phileas’ Day
St. Simeon’s Day (Eastern)
St. Werburga’s Day
Thank A Mailperson Day
Torture Abolition Day
Wedding Ring Day
Winterlude
Yuma Crossing Day
Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
Blessing of the Throats
Carnival Parade – Aruba
Cordova Ice Worm Day
Create-A-Vacuum Day
Day the Music Died (according to Don McLean)
Dump Your “Significant Jerk” Day
Fasching Sunday – Austria,Germany
Foundation of the Vietnamese Communist Party – Vietnam
Four Chaplains Memorial Day
Heroes’ Day – Mozambique
Homemade Soup Day
King Frost Day
Last day of the Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries
Liberty Heroes Day – Sao Tome & Principe
Magnolia and Fish Jubilee – Fairy
Martyr’s Day – Sao Tome
National Carrot Cake Day
National Men’s Grooming Day
National Stuffed Mushroom Day
Obscurity Day
Patient Recognition Day
Powamu Festival – Hopi
San Blaise – Paraguay
Setsubun – Japan
Setsubun – Shinto
Setsubun -This Japanese holiday marks the official end of winter, and is the last remnant of the old Japanese festival calendar, before it was Westernized and New Year’s Day moved to January 1st
Setsubun Bean /Throwing Festival – Japan
Sheep Day -The ten days beginning with Chinese New Year are named after animals and plants. The fourth day is Sheep Day.
Shrovetide
Sri Lanka Independence Day
St. Andrew Corsini’s Day (patron against quarrels, sudden death)
St. Anskar’s Day, patron of Denmark – Iceland
St. Blaise’s Day (patron of sick cattle, wool combers; against throat diseases; Western)
St. Gilbert of Sempringham’s Day
St. Isidore of Pelusium’s Day
St. John de Brito’s Day (patron of Portugal)
St. Phileas’ Day
St. Simeon’s Day (Eastern)
St. Werburga’s Day
Thank A Mailperson Day
Torture Abolition Day
Wedding Ring Day
Winterlude
Yuma Crossing Day
Carnival Sunday – In Italy, the most recently married couple of the neighborhood scoops out the first trowel of earth and plant scarli, poles big as trees, twined with garlands of heather and juniper. At the end of Carnival, the banner at the top is burned.
Theogama – One of the dark-moon, women-only festivals of the Greeks. This festival, celebrated on the 26th day of the Greek month of Gamelion, was also known as the Gamelia, and was sacred to the marriage of Zeus and Hera.
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NOTE: Because of the large number of ancient calendars, many in simultaneous use, as well as different ways of computing holy days (marked by the annual inundation, the solar year, the lunar month, the rising of key stars, and other celestial and terrestrial events), you may find these holy days celebrated a few days earlier or later at your local temple .
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