Keep your hands off Satan's Nuts!

 

This September 21st avoid gathering nuts...

It is Devil's Nutting Day and he doesn't take kindly to people handling his produce.

If he catches you with your hands on his nuts he will send you mad or drag you to hell.

Also girls if you don't want to get a bun in the oven for god's sake don't go nutting. According to lore a good nut harvest will lead to a crop of unwanted bairns. 

Check out the Nutting Song for further important info...

Don't Swing on a Sunday!

 

If children swing on 

Sunday 

the Devil 

will either come 

or rattle his chains…

"YOU MUST NOT PLAY ON SUNDAY

BECAUSE IT IS A SIN;

BUT YOU MAY PLAY ON MONDAY

TILL SUNDAY COMES AGAIN."

(Source: Household Tales with other Traditional Remains – Sidney Oldall Addy)

Avoid the Devil's Porridge!

This Midsummer Day if you are approached by the devil with a steaming bowl of delicious porridge.
Ignore him.
Blank him.
Do not eat the porridge.
If you do not eat the porridge you will be safe from his wicked ways and he will briefly be at your beck and call.

Please note this only seems to happen at Chanctonbury Rings...

Oi! Put that blackberry down! Step away from the bramble... slowly... slowly...

Put it down, now.
No, not in your mouth.
Step away from the bramble.

Michelmas (September 29th)  is the day that Saint Michael chased Lucifer out of heaven. As everyone knows when the Devil fell out of heaven he landed on a prickly blackberry bush.

Angered by this turn of events the Devil cursed the blackberries. It is also said that every Autumn after Michelmas he spat or urinated on them.

Saint Michael casting the Devil out of heaven.
(Blackberry bush just out of frame)

So in the spirit of community we at Wyrd Kalendar have made you the handy poster above and the warning below...

If someone offers you a slice of blackberry crumble beware... it could be cursed...

For more information check out Jim Moon's splendid blog here...

And a superb companion piece here...