Christmas has started
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- Joanbunting
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Christmas has started
Today's the day in Provence.
It is the feast of St Barabara and tradition has it that we plant three saucers of wheat today and grow them until Chandeleur - Candlemas (2nd February). If they flourish then we will have a prosperous year ahead. This year I will have to rely on a neighbour to water them, so fingers crossed.
I know all our neighbours have sown the wheat today and although M and I are not in the least bit religious we love observing the local traditions and this is one we have observed for many years now.
Do you do traditional - even if not religious. How important is it to you?
It is the feast of St Barabara and tradition has it that we plant three saucers of wheat today and grow them until Chandeleur - Candlemas (2nd February). If they flourish then we will have a prosperous year ahead. This year I will have to rely on a neighbour to water them, so fingers crossed.
I know all our neighbours have sown the wheat today and although M and I are not in the least bit religious we love observing the local traditions and this is one we have observed for many years now.
Do you do traditional - even if not religious. How important is it to you?
Re: Christmas has started
I had never heard of that one Joan - thanks for posting! I am all over tradition and folklife, I love the things that are passed down through the generations. I love that my Scottish mother brought her Christmas pudding and cake traditions to Bermuda when she arrived on a troop ship to marry my father after they met in the UK during the war. I love that my father always made the Bermudian Christmas cassava pie, and that we all dug and scraped and ground the cassava for it.
I love that my mother adapted her cake-making tradition by soaking the dried fruit in black rum around Cup Match time at the end of July
Our Christmas traditions in Bermuda revolve around food, alcohol, lots and lots of lights to compensate for no snow, and ever since that year that there was a problem with a disease on imported trees - the fear of not getting a tree.
We really, really take Christmas seriously here, usually from about now until the first week of January we're celebrating - unfortunately we have an election on 17 December which is throwing a major spanner in the works and generally ticking us all off.
I love that my mother adapted her cake-making tradition by soaking the dried fruit in black rum around Cup Match time at the end of July
Our Christmas traditions in Bermuda revolve around food, alcohol, lots and lots of lights to compensate for no snow, and ever since that year that there was a problem with a disease on imported trees - the fear of not getting a tree.
We really, really take Christmas seriously here, usually from about now until the first week of January we're celebrating - unfortunately we have an election on 17 December which is throwing a major spanner in the works and generally ticking us all off.
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