Christians also have church processions to bakeries, where those working therein are blessed by Christian clergy.

Other uses

thumb|upright|Exeter's Lammas Fair glove in 2015

Neopaganism

Some neopagans have adopted the name and date of Lammas, making it one of the harvest festivals in their Wheel of the Year. Other neopagans use the Gaelic name Lughnasa. It is the first of the three autumn festivals, the others being the autumn equinox and Samhain. In the Northern Hemisphere it takes place around 1 August, while in the Southern Hemisphere it is celebrated around 1 February.

Horticulture

Lammas leaves or Lammas growth refers to a second crop of leaves produced in high summer by some species of trees in temperate countries to replace those lost to insect damage. They often differ slightly in shape, texture and/or hairiness from the earlier leaves.

Lammas Fairs

Exeter in Devon is one of the few towns in England that still celebrates its Lammas Fair and has a processional custom which stretches back over 900 years, led by the Lord Mayor. During the fair a white glove on a pole decorated with garlands is raised above the Guildhall. The fair now takes place on the first Thursday in July. Other examples include Ould Lammas Fair and Inverkeithing Lammas Fair.St Andrews in Fife, Scotland continues to have an annual Lammas Fair which takes place along streets in the town.

Lammas wheat

'Red Lammas' and 'White Lammas' are old strains of wheat, which have been used to breed more modern strains. There was also another strain, 'Yellow Lammas'.

Sustainability

A low-impact development project at Tir y Gafel, Glandwr, Pembrokeshire, Lammas Ecovillage, is a collective initiative for nine self-built homes. It was the first such project to obtain planning permission based on a predecessor of what is now the sixth national planning guidance for sustainable rural communities originally proposed by the One Planet Council.

  • In the Inspector Morse episode "Day of the Devil", Lammas Day is presented as a Satanic (un)holy day, "the Devil's day".
  • Lammas is a prominent plot point in the novel, Lammas Night (1983) by Katherine Kurtz.

See also

  • Leyton Marshes
  • Shavuot

References

  • Lammastide - The Church of England
  • The God in the Bread: A Sermon for Lammas - Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
  • Lammas-tide by Leigh Hatts - Walking the Pilgrims' Way
  • "A Little History of Lammas" - A Clerk of Oxford

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