In which month of the year does Lammas Day fall?
Lammas on Lammas Eve. In the "Inspector Morse" episode "Day of the Devil", Lammas Day is presented as a Satanic (un)holy day, "the Devil's day". Katherine Kurtz's alternate World War II "history" takes its title, Lammas Night, from pagan tradition surrounding the first of August and the Divine Right of Kings. Lammas Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon "hlaf-mas", "loaf-mass"), is a holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere, usually between 1 August and 1 September. It is a festival to mark the annual wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year. On this day it was customary
Lammas of Juliet, "Come Lammas Eve at night shall she [Juliet] be fourteen." Since Juliet was born Lammas eve, she came before the harvest festival, which is significant since her life ended before she could reap what she had sown and enjoy the bounty of the harvest, in this case full consummation and enjoyment of her love with Romeo. Another well-known cultural reference is the opening of "The Battle of Otterburn": "It fell about the Lammas tide when the muir-men win their hay". William Hone speaks in "The Every-Day Book" (1838) of a later festive Lammas day sport common among Scottish