November 10 is
Mārtiņdiena or St. Martin's Day, another significant day in the traditional Latvian seasonal calendar.
Mārtiņdiena is the mid-point between the autumn and winter festivals, and traditionally marked the deadline when the field work was finished and the long winter was ahead. Celebrating Mārtiņdiena was (and is!) important to help ensure luck and prosperity for the coming year.
One particular ancient ritual involved the sacrifice of a rooster – and as a reslt Mārtiņdiena is still associated with the symbolism of roosters.
In 1832, K. Schilling, from Tirza, shared stories about the celebration of St. Martin's Day in ancient pagan traditions: "A couple of decades ago, St. Martin's Day was marked in this manner. The owner took a rooster, took it to the horse stable, stood next to one horse and raised the rooster in a circle around the horse, facing the sun, not away from the sun. When this was done with all the horses that were in the stable, then the owner killed the rooster."
This was believed to gain protection for livestock. The roosters were cooked and eaten by the family. In later times, the goose became more popular – it is believed that it was borrowed from German traditions.
Other traditions involved dressing in strange and grotesque costumes (a bear, a goat, a crane, a wolf, haystacks, and death were among the most popular forms) and going from farm to farm singing and playing jokes in exchange for treats from the householders – something with clear parallels to modern trick-or-treating at Halloween.
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