A shadow
This morning Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. So it looks like we're in for six more weeks of winter.
How it all got started.
German superstition
Each Feb. 2, thousands of people descend on Punxsutawney, a town of about 6,100 people located about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, for a little midwinter revelry, celebrating what had essentially been a German superstition.
The Germans believed that if a hibernating animal casts a shadow Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas — winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring will come early.
- Associated Press
How it all got started.
German superstition
Each Feb. 2, thousands of people descend on Punxsutawney, a town of about 6,100 people located about 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, for a little midwinter revelry, celebrating what had essentially been a German superstition.
The Germans believed that if a hibernating animal casts a shadow Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas — winter will last another six weeks. If no shadow is seen, legend says spring will come early.
- Associated Press
4 Comments:
Yesterday was yesterday...today is Groundhog day.
It's still Imbolc to me. Or at least yesterday was.
I posted before you. I think this supports my previous blog post. hehe
Stolen from Wikipedia.
The festival was traditionally associated with the onset of lactation of ewes, soon to give birth to the spring lambs. This could vary by as much as two weeks before or after the start of February.
The name, in the Irish language, means "in the belly", referring to the pregnancy of ewes, and is also a Celtic term for spring.
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