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I have reconfirmed as far as I am able that February 28 (O.S.) is March 12 (N.S.), not March 13, and would appreciate it if someone else would correct Wikipedia on this score as it impacts the Eliade centenary.
I have also, after a particularly crowded weekend work schedule, found it possible to CHECK TITLE as per my inadvertently included note to myself, and have now fixed the mangled French in my citation of Eliade's History of Religious Ideas, as well as a typographical error or two elsewhere in recent posts.
March 12 brings the usual improbable cluster of birthdays and anniversaries, but I am delighted to learn from the aforementioned Wikipedia that this is the day on which the people of the Faroe Islands celebrate the return of the oystercatcher, the national bird of the islands. This is a full week before the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, showing that Faroese birds are made of sterner stuff.
(It has never before occurred to me to wonder why on earth swallows would feel the need to depart from southern California in late October in the first place, but perhaps they have an incredibly narrow dietary regimen. Supposedly no one made a big deal about the swallows until the 1920s, when it was decided that St. Joseph's Day was the moment the whole flock came flocking, even though the scouts arrive sooner and the latecomers straggle in for weeks thereafter.)
Anyway, I choose to believe the Faroese story even if somebody made it up on the spur of the moment.
I have also, after a particularly crowded weekend work schedule, found it possible to CHECK TITLE as per my inadvertently included note to myself, and have now fixed the mangled French in my citation of Eliade's History of Religious Ideas, as well as a typographical error or two elsewhere in recent posts.
March 12 brings the usual improbable cluster of birthdays and anniversaries, but I am delighted to learn from the aforementioned Wikipedia that this is the day on which the people of the Faroe Islands celebrate the return of the oystercatcher, the national bird of the islands. This is a full week before the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, showing that Faroese birds are made of sterner stuff.
(It has never before occurred to me to wonder why on earth swallows would feel the need to depart from southern California in late October in the first place, but perhaps they have an incredibly narrow dietary regimen. Supposedly no one made a big deal about the swallows until the 1920s, when it was decided that St. Joseph's Day was the moment the whole flock came flocking, even though the scouts arrive sooner and the latecomers straggle in for weeks thereafter.)
Anyway, I choose to believe the Faroese story even if somebody made it up on the spur of the moment.
