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Post by 4pygmies on May 15, 2008 15:04:06 GMT 1
June - Named after Juno, the Roman goddess of the Moon, of women and of childbirth. In Welsh: Mehefin, Midsummer. In Gaelic - An t'Og mhios, the young month. In Anglo Saxon - Litha - the month of the midsummer moon.
A dry May and a rainy June
Puts the farmers pipe in tune.
June damp and warm
Doth the farmer no harm.
The beautiful and all curing Rose now begins to bloom. They should be pressed and bruised in a mortar in the shadow until it be growen together and so it should be laid up for eye medicine...it is good for the headache, the ache of the eyes, of the ears, of the gums, of the fundament, of the right gut and of the mother.
To take away the freckles or the Sun burning. Steep a piece of Copper in the juice of a lemon till it be dissolved, and anoint the place with a feather morning and evening, washing it off with white wine.
The decocotion of the herb called Lady's Bedstraw, being yet warm, is of admirable use to bathe the feet of Travellers or lackeys.
If your face be troubled with heat, take Elderflowers, Plantain, white Daisy root and Herb Robert and Put these into running water and wash your face thereof at night and in the morning.
Raw cream, eaten with wild strawberries, is a rural man's banquet: yet I have known such banquets have put men in jeopardy of their lives, by the excess thereof.
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Post by Sweetleaf on May 15, 2008 16:03:22 GMT 1
Goddess of the Moo? ;D
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Post by Sleepy on May 15, 2008 16:06:19 GMT 1
Well, the other godesses thought she was a bit of a cow tbh |
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Post by 4pygmies on May 15, 2008 16:10:13 GMT 1
Sorted... :  |
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Post by debbiem on May 15, 2008 16:20:15 GMT 1
I love all this - thanks 4P. |
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Post by Sweetleaf on May 15, 2008 16:21:27 GMT 1
Sorted... : ;D Dont be offended, dear, its very good. A dry May and a rainy June Puts the farmers pipe in tune. June damp and warm Doth the farmer no harm. I like this bit best, very apt this year. |
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Post by 4pygmies on May 16, 2008 6:40:00 GMT 1
Sorted... : ;D Dont be offended, dear, its very good. A dry May and a rainy June Puts the farmers pipe in tune. June damp and warm Doth the farmer no harm. I like this bit best, very apt this year. Not offended - it made me smile but I HAD to correct it - can't be doing with spelling mistakes like that, just can't help myself.... : |
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Post by 4pygmies on May 16, 2008 6:55:14 GMT 1
Some more handy hints and tips: When a young body doth piss in his bed either oft or seldom: if ye will help him take the bladder of a goat and dry it to powder, and give him it to drink with wine. Or else take the beans (or hinder fallings) of a goat and give him of the powder in his meat morning and evening, a quarter ounce at every time.  The juice of the herb Greater Celandine is good to sharpen the sight, for it cleanseth and consumeth away slimy things that cleave about the ball of the eye and hinder the sight. For the Summer Solstice: Seek ye out St John's Wort aganst Midsummer Eve for the virtue of St John's Wort is thus. If it be put in a man's house, there shall come no evil sprite therein. For the ladies: To help a woman's sore breasts, when they are swelled or else inflamed, take Violet leaves and cut them small, and seeth them in milk or running water with wheat bran or wheat bread crumbs, then lay it to the sore, as hot as the party can endure. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Jun 27, 2008 20:40:36 GMT 1
July - the month of haymaking. Named in honour of Julius Caesar. In Welsh: Gorfennah - the month of completion. In Gaelic: Am Mios buidhar - the yellow month. In Anglo Saxon: Litha - the month of the midsummer moon.
If the first of July it be rainy weather
T'will rain, more or less, for four weeks together.
In these dog days it is forbidden by Astronomy to all Manner of People to be let blood or take physic. Yea, it is good to abstain all this time from Women. For why, all that time reigneth a Star that is called Canilua Canis and the kind of star is broiling and burning as Fire. In these Days all venomous snakes creep, fly and gender so that many are annoyed thereof.
It is a most certain truth, that if the second toe, near the great toe, be as long as the great toe, the person will be very rich and happy.
A remarkabe Superstition still prevails among the lowest of our Vulgar, that a man may lawfully sell his wife to another, provided that he deliver her over with a Halter about her neck.
Wormwood cleanses the body of choler. It provokes urine, helps surfeits or swellings in the belly: it causes appetite to meat. Mix a little Wormwood, a herb of Mars, with your ink: neith rats or mice will touch the paperwritten with it. Moths are under the dominion of Mars: this herb Wormwood being laid amongst clothes, will make a moth scorn to meddle with them.
The Feast of St Mary Magadalen - 22 July - the usual canonical penance for a sleeper hath been that she shall stand at the church door some hours bare legged and barefoot, in a white sheet with a candle in her hand. But this is now left off in many places, for they truly say it but affordeth naughty women of their bodies occasion to display their wares, and entice men to filthiness.
Beans, now ready for gathering, when eaten are extremely windy meat. The Earl of Oxford, making his low obesiance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to travel, seven years. On his return the Queen welcomed him home and said "My Lord, I had forgot the fart."
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 28, 2008 20:05:44 GMT 1
I have been laughing all day about the women displaying their wares and enticing men to filthiness..  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Jun 28, 2008 20:31:14 GMT 1
Is it something to do with vicars?  |
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Post by 4pygmies on Jul 1, 2008 16:57:18 GMT 1
The 1st of July is stonkingly hot and sunny - does that mean it will be a long hot summer then? St Swthin's Day isn't until the 15th July: St Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain Full forty days it will remain St Swithin's Day, if thou be fair For forty days, t'will rain no mair. And one last handy piece of advice: In this month of July, eschew all wanton bed-sports, and of all things forbear Lettuce. I wonder what's wrong with lettuce? Even 'Little Gem'??  |
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 3, 2008 21:50:51 GMT 1
The 1st of July is stonkingly hot and sunny - does that mean it will be a long hot summer then? St Swthin's Day isn't until the 15th July: St Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain Full forty days it will remain St Swithin's Day, if thou be fair For forty days, t'will rain no mair. And one last handy piece of advice: In this month of July, eschew all wanton bed-sports, and of all things forbear Lettuce. I wonder what's wrong with lettuce? Even 'Little Gem'?? Bed-sports? Bed -sports with lettuce? That's certainly different.. And not a little tricky. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Jul 31, 2008 8:30:30 GMT 1
August - named in honour of the deified Roamn emperor Augustus. In Welsh: Awst. In Gaelic: An Lugnasda - the month of the Lammas festival. In Anglo Saxon: Weodmonath - the month of weeds.
Lammas - loaf mass- is the festival of Harvets's beginning, when the first-cut sheaf of corn or bread made from it, was blessed and offered in churches.
"Guard your health during sultry August: invaluable Feverfew now in flower."
Against summer headaches or migraines inhale the crushed leaves of yellow and white Feverfew, the fever chaser. Dried, powdered and taken with honey or sweet wine it 'purgeth siege melancholy and phlegm'.
Observe the Harvest Moon:
The Moon doth always piss, when she is pale
When red, she farts, when white, she wipes her tail.
Countrymen observe that a dripping moon (perpendicular) presages wet, especially the Moon being of a cloudy and blackisg colour in a clear sky, and that the weather will last so a good day.
Also protective against lightning and useful to cure burns, is the succulent Houseleek, or Sengreen, once carefully cultured on roofs and still found there. Old writers call it 'Jupitor's Beard' and hold opinion that soever it groweth no lightening or tempest can do any harm.
The generation of Mice is not only by copulation but also nature worketh wonderfully in engendering them from earth and small showers of rain......a female Mouse having free liberty to litter, within less than half a year she hath brought forth a hundred and twenty young ones.
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Post by floweringcherry on Aug 9, 2008 16:11:07 GMT 1
The Harvest Moon sounds delightful doesn't she? |
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Post by Sweetleaf on Aug 11, 2008 14:12:09 GMT 1
Oh dear, nature makes mice from soil and rain? Does that apply to RATS also? It rained on my birthday this year, never known it happen before. Time to head for the hills I think!  |
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Post by Sleepy on Aug 11, 2008 14:15:48 GMT 1
The Moon doth always piss, when she is pale When red, she farts, when white, she wipes her tail. I once dated a lass who had a very similar problem |
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Post by Sleepy on Aug 11, 2008 18:24:14 GMT 1
I once dated a lass who had a very similar problem ..... for long? No, not for long ;D |
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Post by 4pygmies on Aug 28, 2008 8:43:42 GMT 1
September: The seventh month of the Roman calender. In Welsh: Medi - the month of reaping. In Gaelic: An Sultiune - the month of plenty. In Anglo Saxon: Halegmonath - the holy month.
Fair weather first day of September, fair for the month.
September 4th St Bartholomew's Day and Calender Riot Day. In 1751 Parliament decreed that Britain should change from the Old Style Julian to the New Style Gregorian calender, which was eleven days ahead. In 1752 September 2nd was immedialtely followed by September 14th to make up the discrepancy. Londoners went on the rampage demanding 'give us back our eleven days'.
A heavy crop of berries, especially hips and haws and of Rowan berries presages a hard winter: 'Many haws, many snows'.
The Rowan (mountain ash, quickbeam, wicken, witchbeam or witty) is the most powerful of all plants against evil and witchcraft. Hung above the door or planted in the garden it protects house, family and beasts against spells. Rowan wood walking sticks keep witches and fairies away and rowan wood in coffins prevent the dead from walking.
The nettles stink, yet they make recompense
If your belly by the Colic pain endures
Against the Colic, take Nettle seed and Honey
Is Physic, none better is had for money.
It breedeth Sleep, stays vomit, flegms doth soften
It helps him of the Gout that eats it often.
Observe the weather, make Lavender caps against the onset of winter.
The flowers of Lavender, quilted into a cap and daily worn, are good for all diseases of the head that come of a cold cause, and that they comfort the brain very well, namely if it hath any distempurature that cometh of moisture.
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Post by debbiem on Aug 28, 2008 8:48:26 GMT 1
Rowan planted anywhere in the garden? I've got two very special young ones in the same place - maybe if I moved one nearer the house so there's one for the garden and one for the house? I love your Almanac thread 4P. |
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Post by roan on Aug 28, 2008 10:13:27 GMT 1
We have two Rowan trees in our Middle Garden in line with our back door. Supposed to protect us and I think they do!
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Post by Sleepy on Aug 28, 2008 10:16:52 GMT 1
We have two Rowan trees in our Middle Garden in line with our back door. Supposed to protect us and I think they do! I bought a sambucus (elder) from a chap once who swore it was an excellent deterrent to elephants. So far it's worked well. |
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Post by debbiem on Aug 28, 2008 11:17:52 GMT 1
We have two Rowan trees in our Middle Garden in line with our back door. Supposed to protect us and I think they do! I bought a sambucus (elder) from a chap once who swore it was an excellent deterrent to elephants. So far it's worked well. : What's that rumbling in the distance? |
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Post by Sleepy on Aug 28, 2008 11:30:09 GMT 1
I bought a sambucus (elder) from a chap once who swore it was an excellent deterrent to elephants. So far it's worked well. : What's that rumbling in the distance? Oh, that's my tummy. Had a bout of acid reflux last night |
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Post by debbiem on Aug 28, 2008 11:50:46 GMT 1
Eli belly. |
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