{"id":4335,"date":"2020-02-04T18:27:25","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4335"},"modified":"2020-02-04T18:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T18:27:25","slug":"two-candles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4335","title":{"rendered":"Two candles&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Niece Fiona has confirmed that Candlemas is still celebrated in Luxembourg. \u00a0In small groups, rather like Scottish guisers\u00a0at Hallowe\u2019en, children roam the streets holding a lighted candle or homemade wand, singing traditional songs. In exchange for the music they hope to receive sweets or loose change. Previously the gifts would have been bacon, peas or biscuits. \u00a0Fiona says they call this\u00a0Liichten.<\/p>\n<p>A note from my friend Bill about the Fife version:<\/p>\n<p>If Candlemas be fine and fair, half the winter\u2019s to come and mair!<\/p>\n<div>If Candlemas be wet and foul, half the winter\u2019s gone at Yule!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Candlemas this year (02\/02\/2020) was fairly wet and foul therefore winter is nearly over and we should have a good Spring? All subject these days to Climate Change!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Bill\u2019s father in law farmed at Star of Markinch until mid 20th century.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}