fomos cumprir a tradição,
um raminho de flores campestres,
para todos com coração!
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E nunca o alimento faltar!
E desejar que não falte também:
Paz, Saúde, Alegria,
Ouro e Prata, a ninguém!
Amor e Vida, a todos,
a cada família de alguém!
Até à próxima Espiga!
Abraço 🤗 Maria
Mais:
In stormy days people would burn a little bit of the branches in their fireplaces to keep the lightning away.
This is a tradition mostly from the center and south of Portugal. It has possibly a mixed religious and pagan origin. Religious: The May Blessings to the first fruits of the year. Pagan: Traditions connected to the celebrations to the goddess Flora-Festival of the Maias and Maios, which I may address in a separate post.
Nowadays in the large cities this tradition is not followed anymore as it is unlikely one can find fields of wheat or other cereals.
I do remember this day being celebrated with a modified tradition- bread freshly baked on this particular day is kept in a cloth bag and hidden in a dark cupboard. The following year that bread is eaten and replaced with new bread. The amazing thing is that this bread after one year is hard but has no mold. I remember my family doing this every year and I tried it several times with bread from other days and after a few days it would mold, but bread made on this particular day never did.
So may you all have a wonderful Thursday tomorrow, with peace, light, food, joy and abundance!"
Thank you 🙏 Memories of Portugal!
