It’s the Fourth day of Christmas and you’ve just received four calling bird, sometimes know as colly birds or collie birds (which are actually blackbirds).
Today’s score: you currently have 22 gifts – four calling birds, six French hens, eight turtledoves and four partridges in their respective pear trees (when do these trees become a grove?)
The four calling birds are the four Evangelists. Seek out day old bread (You’ll need it in a major way.) Today is also known as the Feast of the Holy Innocents also called Childermas or Innocent’s Day. It is held in remembrance of the children who were put to death by King Herod following his decree that all male infants in Bethlehem aged two and under be killed.
This was Herod’s attempt to destroy the Christ child after the Wise Men seeking “the newborn king of the Jews” did not return to tell him where the child could be found. Perhaps, you’re not going to be celebrating this part of the holiday.
The Haus of Dcaligari 