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FIRE AND FLAMES TO PLACATE THE THUNDER GOD

By on November 26, 2012 in Anglo-Saxon, Bourton-on-the-Water, Messerschmitt, pagan, swastika, Thor, Thunor, Wint-monath

In the days when Anglo-Saxons ruled England, November was known as ‘Wint-monath’ or wind-month, as this was when the first serious winter storms usually started, ushering in a period reckoned to last until signs of spring the following March. For pre-Christian Anglo-Saxons, an important November custom was lighting huge open-air fires to honour their gods [...]

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