The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #130793 Message #2945424
Posted By: Sugwash
15-Jul-10 - 06:43 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Happy St Swithun's Day (15 July)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Happy St Swithun's Day
Trying to look on the bright side in wet and windy Plymouth. Doesn't the fact that St Swithun's sad death and extended and mobile funeral predated the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar, where those cheeky Catholics diddled the country out of 10 days, mean that the actual St Swithun's Day is the 25th of July? We can only hope!