Pancake Day

Pancake day Pancake Day is the traditional day of celebration that precedes the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent, the 40 days before Easter is traditionally a time of fasting. It is a day in February or March which is celebrated in some countries by consuming pancakes. It's probably impossible to know when the tradition starts. Some suggests that pancake day was originally a pagan holiday. Ancient Slavs believed that the change of the season was a fight between Jarillo, the god of vegetation, and the evils spirits of cold and darkness. People believed that they had to help their god so they start making a eating pancakes. They believed that by eating pancakes the got the power and warmth of sun. The first pancake usually was put on the window for the spirits, while the last day all pancakes were brunt in a bonfire as a sacrifie to the pagan gods.