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2 March, not tied to the day

Folklore from the old calendars

St Chad’s dust at Lichfield No longer kept StaffordshireSt Chad's bones were moved to Lichfield about the year 700, and his shrine drew so many pilgrims that the village grew into a city.

11 March

Folklore from the old calendars

Penny Loaf Day Still kept NottinghamshireDuring the siege of Newark, on the night of 11 March 1643, the alderman Hercules Clay dreamed three times that his house was on fire and got his family out.

11 March, not tied to the day

Folklore from the old calendars

The Witches of Belvoir Lore and belief Leicestershire, LincolnshireJoan Flower and her daughters Margaret and Philippa were servants of the Earl and Countess of Rutland at Belvoir, and fell out with their employers.

Mothering Sunday

Folklore from the old calendars

Fig-pie Wake at Draycott-in-the-Moors No longer kept StaffordshireDraycott-in-the-Moors and its neighbouring villages kept Fig-pie Wake on Mid-Lent Sunday, when friends came visiting to eat fig pies.
Loins of veal on Mid-lent Sunday No longer kept HerefordshireIn Herefordshire Mid-Lent Sunday was kept by every rank, with children of all ages coming home to dine with their parents on loins of veal.
Shrewsbury simnels Still kept Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, ShropshireIn Shropshire and Herefordshire, and above all at Shrewsbury, rich simnel cakes were made in Lent and at Easter and Christmas.

25 March

Folklore from the old calendars

Plucking the fen geese at Lady Day No longer kept LincolnshireThe great flocks of geese in the Lincolnshire fens had their first plucking of the year at Lady Day, for feathers and quills.

Palm Sunday

Folklore from the old calendars

A bundle of box for Palm Sunday No longer kept ShropshireDomesday Book records under Shropshire a tenant who paid for half a carucate of land with a bundle of box twigs on Palm Sunday.
The Caistor gad-whip No longer kept LincolnshireEvery Palm Sunday a man from Broughton came to the north porch of Caistor church during the first lesson and cracked a great ox-whip, the gad-whip, three times.
The Hentland Palm Sunday bun No longer kept HerefordshireOn Palm Sunday the churchwardens at Hentland gave the minister and congregation a cake or bun, and in earlier days a cup of beer as well, which was eaten in church.

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Briggs’s Dictionary of FairiesKatharine Briggs
The Lore of ScotlandJennifer Westwood, Sophia Kingshill
The Folklore of DiscworldTerry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson

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