medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The folk belief is probably widespread. I think ive heard of
it in england, and it makes it to iceland.
meg
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>Groundhog Day (I've been informed that the "'s" isn't proper, with the
>authority of the Bill Murray movie "Groundhog Day" cited at me) is a
>weather-predicting day. If the groundhog comes out of its hole and sees
>its shadow (aka, if the sun is shining today) it'll go back into hiding,
>and there will be another six weeks of winter. There's even an official
>U.S. groundhog somewhere on the east coast who always gets some media
>attention today.
>I discovered a few years ago that this is a German folk belief (not
>associated with groundhogs), one of those handy reminders that an awful lot
>of early immigrants in America were German:
>"Ist's an Lichtmess hell und rein,
>wird ein langer Winter sein"
>Phyllis
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>>>
>>> Today (2. February) is
>> or Groundhog's Day, depending on religious preference)
>>
>>??????????????????????
>>
>>Please enlighten an ignorant Englishwoman !
>>
>>BMC
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