April 21, July 7
Festivals for Pales, goddess of herds. During these festivals, ritualistic cleansing of sheep/cattle pens and animals would take place.
The shepherd would sweep out the pens and smudge the animals and pens with burning sulfur. In the evening, the animals were sprinkled with water, and their pens were decorated with garlands. Fires were started...
... I am so sorry to do this to you, but this post has been moved to my new website, The Pagan Calender, and can be found in its entirety here: Festival for the Pales