Tycho Brahe days list. One should also note that Denmark was on the Julian calendar until 1700, when it switched to the Gregorian calendar. Medieval calendars often contained lists of "dies Ægyptiaci", "Egyptian days", that also were held to be unlucky. The Egyptian days were: These too were days considered unlucky to begin any enterprise. Physicians were especially discouraged from performing bloodletting on the Egyptian days. Tycho Brahe days In the folklore of Scandinavia, Tycho Brahe days (Danish: "Tycho Brahes-dage"; Norwegian: "Tycho Brahedager"; Swedish: "Tycho Brahe-dagar") are days judged to be especially unlucky, especially for magical work, and important business transactions[ and personal
Tycho Brahe the near future. Among his predictions was bloodshed in Moscow and the imminent fall of Ivan the Terrible by 1583. The support that Tycho received from the Crown was substantial, amounting to 1% of the annual total revenue at one point in the 1580s. Tycho often held large social gatherings in his castle. Pierre Gassendi wrote that Tycho also had a tame elk (moose) and that his mentor the Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel (Hesse-Cassel) asked whether there was an animal faster than a deer. Tycho replied that there was none, but he could send his tame elk. When Wilhelm replied