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OK so it's overcast today, but I'm starting to notice the sky getting brighter earlier and earlier. Today is Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau, which is the festival of candles. Its significance is Wales is that on February 2nd, there would finally be enough light in the morning to where candles weren't needed anymore. It's a church festival and stuff, and before that a pagan holiday.

My family didn't go to church or "do" much for Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau but maybe you'll still find this interesting!

Oh yeah and according to my school planner it's Groundhog Day. Didn't we already have Squirrel Appreciation Day?

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x-penance.livejournal.com

Oh, I know this one! Groundhog Day is when there is the groundhog coming out of the hibernation, and if he sees a shadow and goes back in the hole, there will be a longer winter, but if he does not, it will be a short winter!

Or something like that. There is also a movie with Bill Murray in it which is very funny.

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And a groundhog's the same thing as a woodchuck.

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x-welshpixie.livejournal.com

Woodchucks aren't real, are they? It's like the jackalope?

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x-welshpixie.livejournal.com

OK that's similar to what people in Yorkshire say about Gŵyl Fair y Canhwyllau. If there's bad weather on that day, there will be a short winter and if there's good weather that means winter will be longer.

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There's a National Pig Day, too!

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x-wasp.livejournal.com

What do you mean there's no such thing as a jackalope? They have pictures of them on the internet! ;)

A woodchuck is just another name for a groundhog. And they're real. I'm not going to say the whole shadow thing is real, but the animals are.

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x-welshpixie.livejournal.com

Pig Day? I would love to get a pot-bellied pig and give it presents on Pig Day. <3 They are so adorable.

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x-wildchild.livejournal.com

They're real, yeah. We've got 'em all over the grounds here, the little bastards.

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Laurie has one! I think Kyle wants to eat it. It's like walking bacon and pork chops or something.

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