Mom says today is April Fools' Day and we are supposed to try to pull your leg but we aren't able to think of anything. So we will just share how it may have started.
Origins of April Fools' Day
Some historians speculate that April Fools’ Day dates back to 1582, when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, as called for by the Council of Trent in 1563. In the Julian Calendar, as in the Hindu calendar, the new year began with the spring equinox around April 1.
People who were slow to get the news or failed to recognize that the start of the new year had moved to January 1 and continued to celebrate it during the last week of March through April 1 became the butt of jokes and hoaxes and were called “April fools.” These pranks included having paper fish placed on their backs and being referred to as “poisson d’avril” (April fish), said to symbolize a young, easily caught fish and a gullible person.
~ATCAD
14 comments:
OhMyCat (and Dog) ... had never know anything of April Fool's Day origins, thanks for sharing, quite amusing and interesting ...
Of course, all your scrapbooking images are as lovely as always!
Ooooooooooo!
How cool to learn the origin of April Fool's day!
The scrapbook pages are really good too.
Such imagination!
Purrs, Julie
Thanks for visiting us and we are glad you enjoyed learning about April Fool's Day. ~Fenris & Chimera
That was interesting to learn how April Fool's Day started. Lovely pages as always.
We love seeing all your art. Thanks for the information about the origin of April Fool's Day. We never knew how it cam about.
These are all great. And I learned something- I didn't know why or when April Fool's Day was started. XO
We love all your art today. And that's no joke! :)
Lovely art!
And now we know all about why we even have a 'holiday' on April 1. Thanks for doing the research!
Lovely art as always!
These are all lovely!
I always love your artwork
Lovely art, as always.
Thanks for the info about how April Fools' Day began.
Beautiful! Once you get a challenge, how do you come up with the ideas for the themes?
That is a good question CK we will try to answer it next week.
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