The magic calendar
103 festivals, solstices, days of the dead and lucky and unlucky days, with the entries tied to each. Dates are worked out afresh every day; those marked "about" follow the moon or local calendars and can shift by a day.
Sponsored ClearTrust Solstices, festivals, days of the dead and omen days, with the dates each next falls on.
November 2026
13 Nov 2026Friday the 13thA day of bad luck in much of the English-speaking world, from the old unluck of Friday and of the number thirteen, studied as a named fear.
29 Nov 2026St Andrew's EvePoland's Andrzejki and the Romanian night of St Andrew, when wax is poured through a key hole and girls try to learn who they will marry.
29 Nov 2026St Andrew's EvePoland's Andrzejki and the Romanian night of St Andrew, when wax is poured through a key hole and girls try to learn who they will marry.
February 2027
2 Feb 2027Groundhog DayA groundhog is watched on 2 February to see whether it sees its shadow, taken as a forecast of six more weeks of winter.
14 Feb 2027St Valentine's Day love divinationA day on which, in older custom, the first person you meet or the first bird you see was said to show your future partner.
April 2027
about 13 to 14 Apr 2027Sinhala and Tamil New Year and its auspicious timesIn Sri Lanka, each act of the new year, from lighting the hearth to the first meal, is done at a time set by astrologers.
24 Apr 2027St Mark's EveOn 24 April in English folk belief, those who kept watch in the church porch at midnight would see the ghosts of those who would die that year.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Groundhog Day: Anthony Quintano, CC BY 2.0, source
- Akshaya Tritiya: Fgndgndgnr, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Molybdomancy: Micha L. Rieser, Attribution, source
- Saint Andrew's Day: Henryk Siemiradzki, Public domain, source
- Valentines Day Love Divination: Upload: Chordboard, Public domain, source
- Saint Agnes Eve: August von Wörndle, Public domain, source
- Good Friday Folk Lore: Bellina 09, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- St Swithins Day: Unknown author, Public domain, source