Category: Michaelmas Traditions

• Carrot Sunday

  

  On the Sunday before Michaelmas – known as ‘Domhnach Curran’, or ‘Carrot Sunday’ – Hebridean women would head to the fields to pull carrots, hoping for a lucky two-pronged root. If the soil were soft enough, they could easily pull the carrots – but, if the soil were hard, a three-pronged mattock was used to…

  Hearthstone Fables

  August 20, 2022

  Michaelmas Traditions, Ordinary Time II

  Carmina Gadelica, carrots, church calendar, farm life, Feast of St. Michael, liturgical calendar, liturgical living, Michaelmas, seasonal, St. Michael