Lincoln Alerts 4.2.12- Aprilis and The Feast of Fools
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April comes from the Latin word Aprilis that was also revered as the goddess of love. April fools day origins date back to 1582, the year France adopted the Gregorian Calendar, which shifted the observance of New Year’s Day from the end of March, around the time of the vernal equinox to the first of January. According to popular lore some folks, out of ignorance, stubbornness, or both, continued to ring in the New Year on April 1 and were made the butt of jokes and pranks on account of their foolishness. This became an annual tradition, according to this version of events, which ultimately spread throughout Europe.
The Feast of Fools were popular medieval festivals regularly celebrated the first of April by France, Spain, Germany, Poland, England, and Scotland. Apparently these were drunken festivals and once the participants became inebriated the would play practical jokes on one another.
April is also know for Easter but I think most of us know the origins of that.
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