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| Wearing Green On St. Pats Day |
Dear Curator: I have heard the expression, Wearing of the green for St. Patrick's day and wondered what it meant.
A very good question indeed. (Attention, all eyes down here instead of on Megan Fox. You can go back and look once you finish reading) There are a few explanations that I will endeavor to answer. First, in Ireland, the color green wasn't normally worn by the people for fear of being taken by the Good People, also known as, the fairies. The fairies loved the color green and if your children wore to much green, they stood the chance of being stolen. Seriously! I'm not kidding you. That was a long ago superstition. Today in Ireland, not so much.
In the United States, wearing green on St. Pat's pays tribute to the Emerald Isle, (Ireland) and it's people and also so you don't get pinched. That's right. If you forget or choose not to wear green on St. Patrick's day, your friends have the right to pinch you for not wearing green.
There you have it, the reason for Wearin O The Green.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
LURKING, ERIN GOES BRALESS ON THE GRASSY KNOLL
