User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-27550231-20160814025002/@comment-28358106-20160814033939

Aegis: "Oo!  Oo! I love holidays!"

Me: "Quite a few.  The Cathars observe Holy Eve in the winter (Christmas) as a way of recognizing the Holy Spirit they believe to be in all good creatures. Even though it's a Cathar holiday, it's celebrated by all the provinces.  There's Hallow's Eve, or Halloween, another Cathar holiday, and one that the Order highly disapproves of.  I think you already know about that one, but we observe it quite a bit differently here.  I can explain more about it later.  Also in the fall is the harvest festival, called the Harvest Moon.  That's a holiday that is celebrated over two weeks, and every town, city, and settlement has some sort of fair at the end of September.  In the summer is the Planter' Pass, which is a two week break before the fall furrowing, and when most families go on vacation.  We also celebrate the new year, and a week in April, called the Wait Week.  It's called that because traditionally, farmers im Whitemarch could tell when the heaviest rains would come in the second week of April, and would measure the month's rainfall by the averages in that one week. During that time they'd wait or hurry planting, depending on the rain. Everyone else besides farmers liked the idea of doing nothing while it rained, so the tradition stuck. And besides all these are little commemorative holidays here and there, but the largest is Charter Day, May the 5th. It was the day that, a hundred years ago, all the provinces signed the Free States Charter, recognizing each other's sovereignty while agreeing to open trade and a mutual protection pact. Because of it, we've been able to stop both Demonic and Sabbath invasions."