November Days 16th - 30th
November 16th – 30th

11/16
Hecate – Greek
Sunset marks the beginning of Hecate Night

St. Edmund of East Anglia – British
King of East Anglia, St. Edmund, was killed by Danish archers and then beheaded. In the tradition of Saxon magic kingship, his severed head was guarded by a wolf until it and his body were recovered and later buried at St. Edmundsbury, Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, a sacred place of pilgrimage

Serial killer, necrophilic and cannibal Ed Gein, Wisconsin, United States, arrested, 1957.

Catholic Saints
St. Vincentia

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11/17
Catholic Saints
St. Gregory; St. Hugh of Lincoln; St. Sontius; St. Victoria; St. Ze’ura; St. Dionysius; St. Hugh of Lincoln; St.s Nobilius and Nobilitanus

Christchurch Show Day – New Zealand

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11/18
Mass suicide and murder in Jonestown, 1978

Mickey Mouse debuts, 1928

Catholic Saints
St. Frigidian

Flag Day – Uzbekistan

Independence Day – Morocco

National Day – Oman, Latvia

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11/19
President A. Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address, 1863.

Catholic Saints
St. Azi; St. Obadiah

Discovery Day – Puerto Rico

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11/20
Praetextantus and Paulina – Roman
Guardians of the Eleusinian mysteries, Praetextatus and Paulina, are commemorated today. In 364 C.E., they resisted the order of Christian Emperor Valentinian to suppress these Greek pagan mysteries. They continued to allow the entire rite to be performed in the traditional way

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials begin, 1945.

Catholic Saints
St. Talona; St. Dacey

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11/21
The birth of Voltaire, 1694

Catholic Saints
St. Flora; St. Digain

Totensonntag – Germany



11/22
Ydalir – Northern
Festival of Ydalir, the Valley of the Yews, under the rulership of the wintertime god of skiing and archery, Ullr

United States President, John F Kennedy assassinated.

Infamous pirate Blackbeard killed, 1718

Author Jack London dies, 1916.

St. Cecilia – Celtic
Today is celebrated by all music lovers as St. Cecilia’s Day. She is patroness of music, an aspect of the goddess Artemis Calliste, the Lily of Heaven

Catholic Saint
St. Cecilia; St. Zetus

Repentance Day – Germany, Switzerland

Feast of St. Cecilia – St. Lucia

Independence Day – Lebanon

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11/23
St. Clement – Christian
Wayland – Anglo-Saxon
This day marks the first day of winter in the Julian calendar. St. Clement, as patron saint of blacksmiths and metalworkers, Clement is an aspect of the Saxon and Norse godling Wayland the Smith. At the annual blacksmith’s feast held at Burwash, Sussex, Old Clem was said to stand protectively above the tavern door

Birth of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor, 912

Catholic Saints
St. Lucretia; St. Rachildis; St. Clement (Pope)

St. George of Iberia – Georgia

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11/24
Catholic Saints
St. Flora; St. Portianus of Miranda; St. Coleman of Cloyne; St. Coleman; St. Kienan

Magnus (Celtic Manx)
1265 – Magnus, last King of the Isle of Mann, died.

Origin of Species by Charles Darwin published, 1859

Accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is killed by Jack Ruby, 1963.

Hijacker DB Cooper parachutes out of hijacked plane into a thunderstorm over a thick forest and disappears.

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11/25
Persephone/Kore/Arianrod – Greek/Roman
Commemorates the wheel goddess of the underworld, known variously as Persephone, Proseprina, Kore, Arianrod, and Catherine, ruler of the souls of the dead

Catholic Saints
Catherine of Alexandria



11/26
King Tut’s tomb is entered, 1922

Swiss alchemist was born on this day in 1493.

Totensonntag (Death’s Sunday) – Switzerland

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11/27
Jimi Hendrix, rock star, born, 1942

Catholic Saints
St. Bilhildis; St. Oda; St. Zita; St. Fergus; St. Gustan



11/28
Sinn Fein founded in Ireland, 1905

William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway, 1582.

Catholic Saints
St. Illuminata; St. Catherine Laboure

Flag Day – Albania

Independence Day – Mauritania, Palau, Panama, Burundi, Chad

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11/29
Sons of Saturn/St. Saturnius – Roman
One of the festivals of the sons of Saturn, in their saintly guise as St. Saturnius. Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, sons of Saturn, are commemorated on this day

Catholic Saints
St. Ashkhenia; SG Dorothy Day; St. Phaedrus; St. Cuthbert Mayne

Liberation Day – Albania

Republic Day – Serbia, Montenegro, Yugoslavia

Unity Day – Vanuatu

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11/30
St. Andrew – Christian/Scottish – Haiti, Scotland, UK
He is a version of the divinity known as Andros, the Man, personification of manhood and the principle of virility, seen as an aspect of Dionysus. This is the patron day of Scotland, whose matron goddess is Skadi, the Scathing One

Winston Churchill born, 1874

Mark Twain born, 1835

Harvest Holiday - Turkmenistan

Catholic Saints
St. Merle