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Happy Groundhog Day!
February 2: (Midwinter)
They hate me in the garden
They hate me in the yard
The life of a groundhog
Is awful darn hard
They set out traps, they throw their rocks
They swerve to hit me with their cars
But on the second day of February
Suddenly I'm a star
"Groundhog Day" © 1995 John McCutcheon/Appalsongs (ASCAP)
& Si Kahn/Joe Hill Music (ASCAP)
[thanx "Brett Weiss" ]
Seems the knowledge that if the sun shines on Candlemas then winter will continue.
Obviously, groundhogs will only see their shadow if the sun is shining. German farmer/settlers
have trekked to Punxsutawney, PA for the vital six-week weather forecast only since 1887
but the tradition is old.
For many, the "renewal" festival occurs at the solstice (12/21 or so) and the celebration that it
worked, the Feast of Returning Light, (Sabat of Imbolc/Brigid/Oimelc/Candlemas) about now.
Both require sympathetic magic using lights to make it all work. Candlemas is an official holiday
in, for example, Liechtenstein.
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