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Today (Nov 11) is the feast of St Martin of Tours; to celebrate, I talk a bit about Martinmas customs and about the celebration of the Feast at Thalbach in Bregenz in 1595 in today's blog post
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Happy St. Martin's Day and the compulsory feast, young wine tasting, roasted chestnuts and generally kind spirits everyone!
#StMartin #Martinmas #Photography #Fungi #Mushrooms #Foraging #FungiFriday #Forest #APSC #Rangefinder #SamsungNX #NX300 #VintageLens #ManualFocus #50mm #Yashica
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Saint Martin's Day or Martinmas is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and is celebrated on 11 November. In the Middle Ages and early modern period, it was an important festival in many parts of Europe.
Martinmas in old Scots was often known as ‘Martinmas in winter’ to distinguish it from the feast of the translation of St Martin on the fourth of July. In Scotland it was one of the half yearly quarter days when landlords’ rents were paid, and new hands were hired.
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Some photos taken in the wood today, St Martins day.
Back when the village had a 3 field system, #Martinmas was when the pigs were let into the woods to forage, we know this because the wood was named after it. A quick trawl of the internet finds that in Europe Martinmas was the time to eat goose, and light candles and bonfires against the darkness. These are 'start of winter' things. Fatten the pigs ready to eat. Cull the geese so there are fewer to feed over the winter.
Pre christianity, the saxons had 2 seasons: gaer (year), and winter. (In the same way we have day and night, and day also means the whole cycle). Samhain, summer's end, marks the transition to winter. The Christian church turned samhain into prayers for the holy and the departed, a serious and sombre time, so I guess the feasting got pushed to St Martins day. A saint praised for generosity and charity, qualities important to remember during a feast to mark the start of the lean times of winter. #nature #autumn -
I never heard about this before:
Well into living memory in Ireland, ritual blood sacrifice was practiced on 11 November, or 'Martinmas,' largely in Connacht and the south-west.
#MastoDaoine #Martinmas #StMartinsDay #folklore #Ireland #ritual #pagan
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According to an old Huntingdonshire proverb, a north west wind on Martinmas was a sign of a severe winter to come. Another thing to look for on this day which predicts a severe winter is the leaves still being on the trees.
10 Martinmas customs:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2021/11/11-november-martinmas.html
