Bitttage#
Prayer Days, days on which processions are held to pray for a good harvest and to ward off thunderstorms; mainly on the 3 days before the Ascension of Christ (going back to the synod of Orleans of 511) and the name day of St. Mark (April 25). Even in pre-Christian times pictures of gods were carried through the fields, also to inspect the estate borders.
Literature#
R. Fochler, Von Neujahr bis Silvester, 1971; H. Koren, Volksbrauch im Kirchenjahr, 1934.