Talk:blackthorn winter

Mention

Mention, but useful for establishing meaning and translations:

• 2012, Melusine Draco, Traditional Witchcraft for Fields and Hedgerows (John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN), page 133:

  The tree sports some barbarous spikes and gives its name to the 'blackthorn winter' — a sudden, bitterly cold spell in the spring when the tree is in flower. The Anglo-Saxons called it wynmonath — the time of treading the wine-vats. Or Winterfyllith, referring to a calendar in which the full moon of this month marked the beginning of winter, although officially, the Hunter's Moon is the second full moon after the Autumn Equinox.

- -sche (discuss) 16:56, 20 March 2018 (UTC)