A principal’s candy cane ban provides a chance to look at some fakelore about the Christmas confection.
Tag: Folklore
The Season of the Dead: The Origin and Practice of Allhallowtide
What are the real roots of the
Halloween season?
The Earliest Known Depiction of Witches On Brooms, and What It Tells Us About Evil
This marginal illustration comes from Le champion des dames (A Defense of Women) by Martin Le France, 1451. Martin was secretary to both Antipope Felix V and Pope Nicholas V. His work is a 24,000-verse (!) poem extolling the virtues of women, but also condemning heresy and corruption. The witches are identified as Vaudois, or Waldensians, who were accused of practicing witchcraft…
Weird Catholic 
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