Mishenden (Mouse Feastday); St Nestor’s Day. Name day of everyone named Nestor. The day is honoured by women. They are forbidden to do any household work, otherwise mice will harm the house and the grain. They sew up the front and the back of their skirts – resembling the symbolical “sewing up” of the mice’s eyes. It is strictly forbidden to talk about mice.
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