An old Welsh calendar said it was the custom to wash or bathe on the eve of Trinity Sunday to keep off the tertian ague. Peter Roberts thought it a Druid superstition of midsummer, since Trinity Sunday falls near the solstice.
Bathing on Trinity Eve against the ague
55 days after Easter · Wales
Lore and belief
In an old Welsh calendar it is said, that on the eve of Trinity Sunday, it was the custom to wash or bathe to prevent the tertian-ague.
From Roberts's Cambrian Popular Antiquities, p. 28. Read the original
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