Leap Day Folklore!! Traditional Cache
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Here is a little information about Leap Year and Leap Day...with a bit of an Irish twist to it!
Another tall tale?? There's no reason to believe it's anything but — dates the origin of ladies' privilege to the 5th century, around the time St. Patrick supposedly drove the snakes out of Ireland (another tall tale?) As the story goes, St. Patrick was approached by St. Bridget, who had come to protest on behalf of all women the unfairness of always having to wait for men to propose marriage. After due consideration, St. Patrick offered St. Bridget and her gender the special privilege of being able to pop the question one year out of every seven. Some haggling ensued, and the frequency ultimately settled upon was one year out of four — leap years, specifically — an outcome which satisfied both parties. Then, unexpectedly, it being a leap year and St. Bridget being single, she got down on one knee and proposed to St. Patrick on the spot! He kindly refused, of course, bestowing on her a kiss, for luck I'm sure... as her only consolation! Alas, poor lady.
We may conclude, among other things, that St. Patrick was better at dealing with snakes than with women.
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Jr'ir cebivqrq n avpr orapu sbe lbh ohg vs lbh oevat lbhe OVXR...vg pna erfg gbb!
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