<Li> Candlemas: 2 February, Candlemas, which fell forty days after Christmas, marked the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple and the purification of the Virgin Mary . </Li> <Li> Whitsunday: originally a moveable term day, coming the seventh Sunday after Easter, was fixed in Scotland at 15 May in 1693 . Whitsunday was originally the feast of Pentecost, around which a great many christenings would occur, so it became associated with the color white . </Li> <Li> Lammas Day: 1 August, feast of St. Peter ad Vincula was a corruption of loaf - mass, the Sunday on which the first fruits of harvest were offered, first corn ground, and first loaf made . In Scotland it was associated with hand - fasting and some fairs on this day were called handfasting fairs . (Originally synonymous with betrothal, handfasting became a contract binding a man and woman to live together for a year and a day before they decided on permanent marriage .) </Li> <Li> Martinmas: 11 November, was known as St. Martin in Winter or St. Martin of Tours to distinguish this from another feast of St. Martin in July . </Li>

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