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My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts) Fri Mar 7, 2014, 06:52 AM Mar 2014

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Childermas Day

No work must ever be started on Childermas Day, December 28, also called Holy Innocents Day. It is an ill omen. Children must be whipped on this day so that the memory of Herod's murder of the Innocents might dwell in them. You may not don a new suit of clothing or pare your nails on Childermas Day.

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Childermas Day (Original Post) My Good Babushka Mar 2014 OP

hugging would seem more appropriate than whipping rurallib Mar 2014 #1

link? n/t orleans Mar 2014 #2

My information My Good Babushka Mar 2014 #3

rurallib

(62,416 posts)

1. hugging would seem more appropriate than whipping

Reply to My Good Babushka (Original post)

Fri Mar 7, 2014, 10:59 PM

Mar 2014

I am loving your posts!

orleans

(34,053 posts)

2. link? n/t

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Sat Mar 8, 2014, 12:46 AM

Mar 2014

My Good Babushka

(2,710 posts)

3. My information

Reply to orleans (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:51 AM

Mar 2014

is usually from W.C. Hazlitt's Dictionary of Faiths and Folklore. I have this edition.
http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Faiths-Folklore-Beliefs-Superstitions/dp/1858912512/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394279269&sr=1-5&keywords=Faiths+Folklore
There is also a free e-book called Observations on Popular Antiquities that has a lot of the same information.

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