April Fools

Fooles Holy Day.

Ovid’s Fastorum, lib. II.

Lux quoque cur eadem Stultorum festa vocetur,
[accipe].*


We observe it on the first of April.

And so it is kept in Germany everywhere.

John Aubrey (1626–1697)

from Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme (1688)

*[Learn] why the same day (17th February) is also called the Feast of Fools. Ovid, Fasti, 2.513f


tag: folk custom

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