Tag: Michaelmas

• 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

• Dragon Blackberry Pie

  

  Blackberries are a big part of Michaelmas tradition. According to legend, St. Michael cast Lucifer out of heaven on Michaelmas (originally, this legend was attached to Old Michaelmas – which was on October 10th). Lucifer landed in a blackberry bramble, and being so angered by the prickles, he spat on them – so, it became…

  Hearthstone Fables

  August 20, 2022

  Fall, Michaelmas Recipes, Ordinary Time II, Recipes, September

  blackberries, blackberry pie, church calendar, farm life, liturgical calendar, liturgical living, Michaelmas, pie, Recipes, seasonal, St. Michael