SOCIAL STUDIES
Source: Globe and Mail (Original Article)
Looking for a cause?June is more than just the kickoff of hurricane season (for the Atlantic and Central Pacific regions). It is also designated to be: Celibacy Awareness Month (a celebration, not a plea for funds);
U.S. National Accordion Awareness Month (to increase public awareness of this musical instrument, and its influence and popularity in today’s music);
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Potty Training Awareness Month ("Potty training can be an exciting yet frustrating time for parents," says the sponsor, Pull-Ups Training Pants).
Source: Chase’s Calendar of Events 2008
Marriage superstitions
This is traditionally the wedding month and, in the Junes of olden days, people were still relying on pagan superstitions for some of their marriage planning. A few, cited by Chambers’s Book of Days (1891 edition):
A girl had only to agitate the water in a bucket of spring water with her hand, or to throw broken eggs over another person’s head, if she wished to see the image of the man she should marry.
A union could never be happy if the bridal party, in going to church, met a monk, a priest, a hare, a dog, cat, lizard or serpent, while all would go well if it were a wolf, a spider or a toad.
A considerable sum of money was put into a purse or plate, and presented by the bridegroom to the bride on the wedding night, as a sort of purchase of her person - a custom common to the Greeks as well as the Romans.
Button it. Here he comes
A June 2, 1908, story from Globe archives reports that a kyrre haakaas pastor in Little Falls, N.Y., declared …continue reading