Ground Hog Day - February 2nd in America

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stretch5881 said:
I wonder what drinking game they were playing, when they first decided to jerk a woodchuck out of its here it all beganhole?
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This event has been around for a day or two.. Where it all began, but it doesn’t say what they were drinking, which I’m sure they were drinking something.

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Let’s take it back to where it all began, Candlemas. Groundhog Day was rooted from an ancient Christian tradition called Candlemas. This tradition consisted of clergy gathering candles that they would bless and handout to their communities for the winter season. The candles would be distributed on the day between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. The weather that day would symbolize how long or cold the season would be. If the weather was a warm, bright, and sunny day, it was believed that there was still much winter ahead. However, if it was much cloudier on the day the candles were given out, it was to be believed that warmer temperatures were coming soon.

The First Groundhogs Day- February 2, 1887​

As time progressed, the Christian tradition was expanded upon by German settlers in Pennsylvania. They chose to select an animal to predict the weather patterns, rather than candles. They first selected the hedgehog, which later became the Groundhog.

The first official Groundhog’s Day celebration was celebrated in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania on February 2nd, 1887. The idea came about from a newspaper editor named Clymer Freas, who convinced a local group of groundhog hunters to search for Phil, the weather predicting groundhog, at Gobbler’s Knob. It is led to believe that on this day Phil, in fact, did see his shadow meaning more winter was ahead. ”

https://heritagecb.com/history-of-groundhogs-day/#:~:text=The%20first%20official%20Groundhog's%20Day%20celebration%20was,the%20weather%20predicting%20groundhog%2C%20at%20Gobbler's%20Knob.
 

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