*Ø* Blogmanac March 16 | The Finnish St Patrick, just for fun
Feast day of St Urho, the grasshopper slayer
Finland’s answer to Ireland’s St Patrick, Urho expelled the grasshoppers from Finland. Raising his staff, he intoned, “Grasshopper, grasshopper, go to hell!”, and they accommodated him, and the country’s wine-grape crop was saved forever. Of course, St Urho is a made-up saint, just for fun.
Some say that a Finnish-American store owner in Minnesota, USA, became weary of his Irish-American employees always asking for March 17 off in honour of St Patrick, and it was he who invented St Urho ...
All over the USA, Finnish Americans commemorate today as a national celebration ...
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives, with more links, at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
Feast day of St Urho, the grasshopper slayer
Finland’s answer to Ireland’s St Patrick, Urho expelled the grasshoppers from Finland. Raising his staff, he intoned, “Grasshopper, grasshopper, go to hell!”, and they accommodated him, and the country’s wine-grape crop was saved forever. Of course, St Urho is a made-up saint, just for fun.
Some say that a Finnish-American store owner in Minnesota, USA, became weary of his Irish-American employees always asking for March 17 off in honour of St Patrick, and it was he who invented St Urho ...
All over the USA, Finnish Americans commemorate today as a national celebration ...
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives, with more links, at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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