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Feb 2, 2026 at 3:52pm
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Re: QOTD: Monday, February 2
This is what I found, and I have no idea if it is true or not:


It lines up with Candlemas, a Christian holiday that itself absorbed older pagan seasonal traditions. Candlemas had a proverb:

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight.

German settlers in Pennsylvania replaced the European hedgehog with the local groundhog, and the tradition stuck.
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