Lady Day (March 25) and its folklore, plus Tichborne oddities
Lady Day is an abridgement of the old term ‘Our Lady's day’ – a ‘gaudy day’ of the Catholic Church, and it represents the Christianisation of older, pagan Spring Equinox festivals, in the much the same way that St Patrick's Day and Easter do. This page also has two strange stories concerning the Tichborne manor of Hampshire. One concerns an ancient curse; the other, a bizarre fraud.