I'm just gonna throw in the bit of historical trivia that the ancient (pre-Republic) Roman calendar *didn't have months* for January and February -- that whole time of year was just called "winter" ("hiems") and not worth keeping track of until the Kalends of Marchhttps://twitter.com/Hal_Duncan/status/1315751438673379336 …
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As is all too common, those English peasants just wanted to do something "naughty" and "dirty" that the church would probably frown upon, and so they labeled it a "pagan" tradition even though it was something made up fairly recently Same stuff happens today
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They seemed very eager to make up traditions in that whole run, which somehow got laundered into being factual by the 19th century before someone realized there was no basis for it. Like Eostre.
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