Lammas

So there are three harvests in the Wheel of the Year.

The first one was Lammas or Lunasa.

It's also called Lunasa, and we celebrated that on August 1st.

And now we are in the second harvest, which is called Mabon or autumn equinox.

All right, the third theme is, of course, harvest and abundance.

So as I mentioned, we're in the second harvest.

Lammas was the first harvest, which was really about, um, the grain harvest.

So Lammas, uh, if you haven't had a chance to listen to that episode, you can go back and find it, but Lammas, um, actually means loaf mass.

I'm sorry, in July into August.

It's always around Lammas, that last week of July.

Okay.

I know there's a couple other like psychic fairs that happen in London that are more community driven and less like come shop because George Lizos, my friend and co-host for Living Hellenism, he goes to those.

If they don't, they'll kinder quiet down like.

I expect them and the souls they hunts for have some pretty tough tussles sometimes." On Lammas Night, 1924, Dr.

Houghton of Aylesbury was hastily summoned by Wilbur Whateley, who had lashed his one remaining horse through the darkness and telephoned from Osborne's in the village.

He found old Whateley in a very grave state, with a cardiac action and stertorous breathing that told of an end not far off.

As the summer drew on, he felt dimly that something ought to be done about the lurking terrors of the upper Miskatonic valley, and about the monstrous being known to the human world as Wilbur Whateley.

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The Dunwich horror itself came between Lammas and the equinox in 1928, and Dr. Armitage was among those who witnessed its monstrous prologue.

He had heard, meanwhile, of Waitley's grotesque trip to Cambridge, and of his frantic efforts to borrow or copy from the Necronomicon at the Widener Library.

Percy's Pennon.

It fell about the Lammas-time, When yeomen won their hay, That doughty Douglas gan to ride In England to take a prey.

Battle of Otterburn.

The battle of Otterburn, which took place in the autumn of thirteen eighty-eight, is without question one of the most interesting episodes in Border history, and is especially significant as an illustration of the prowess and chivalry of the Border chiefs.

Man and boy for sixty year, and began no more than boot-cleaning.

Man and boy for sixty-three year, come next Lammas tide.

I should like it upon my tombstone, sir, with what God pleases added, if I not make too bold, and you the master of the churchyard, if so you be, should you live long enough, when my turn come, God willing.

It will not be in my power, Job; but if ever it is, you may trust me.

harvest.

You know, the first harvest is at Lammas, obviously the big harvest.

And this is the second part of the harvest, you know, where we go, right, we've got Lammas, we've had our harvest there, but this is the last harvest now until next year.

So let's really make the most of it.

Let's really fucking reap all the seeds.

Man and boy for sixty year and began no more than boot cleaning.

Man and boy for sixty-three year come next Lammas tide.

I should like it upon my tombstone, sir, with what God pleases added if I not make too bold and you the master of the churchyard, if so you be, should you live long enough when my turn come, God willing." "It will not be in my power, Job; but if ever it is, you may trust me." "And aye once that hymn I was telling my niece about: 'Put thy hand in the hollow of my thigh.' Holy Bible, you know, sir, and none can object to that." "Come, Job, my good friend, you must not talk so sepulchrally.

Leave his own good time to God." "To be sure, sir.

You're celebrating the second harvest.

The first harvest is Lammas at the beginning of August.

We talked about that in our last episode.

But then we have this second harvest leading up to our third harvest at Samhain, which we'll talk about next episode.