Dawnfeast

Execution

The Feast of Dawn is a minor celebration of Briganitia Aurora, the goddess of the dawn.

Agricultural Traditions

Leading up to the celebration's peak, it was bad luck to plant wheat, spin yard or wash sheets.

Cabbages, Onions and Pumpkins are sown in the lead-up to the festival.

Seaside communities take the week to collect barnacles along the shoreline.

Tan-Mor harvested during Dawnfeast is used to treat epilepsy

Breaking Day

A communal festival, wherein the pots and plates damaged during the year are destroyed.

The Pardon Wind

Popular tradition holds that the wind that blows during The Pardons on the first day of the Feast of Dawn will be the dominant wind for the year.

Components and tools

Boxwood

Boxwood is placed on bee skeps to bless them

Sprigs of Boxwood are placed on graves

Boxwood is planted at the end of furrows of uncultivated land.

Eggs

Eggs laid during Dawnfeast bring good luck and are kept as talismans.

These are dyed red with onion skins.

Other Traditions

A sardine is grilled and hung from the rafters as protection against flies.

The power of the Garwaf becomes weaker during Dawnfeast.