Editing Michaelmas (section)

===Food===
A traditional meal for the day includes [[goose]] known as a ''stubble-goose'' (one prepared around harvest time, fattened on the [[wiktionary:stubble_field|stubble fields]])<ref name=bbc>{{cite news |title=Are we ready to embrace the Michaelmas goose once again? |date=29 September 2012 |department=Food |website=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/19731413 |access-date=28 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003010509/https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/19731413 |archive-date=3 October 2012}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Simpson |first=Jacqueline |title=A dictionary of English folklore |last2=Roud |first2=Stephen |date=2001 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860398-6 |series=Oxford paperback reference |location=Oxford New York |pages=237}}</ref> also known as an ''embling'' or ''rucklety'' goose.<ref name=":1">{{cite book |author=Mahon, Bríd |year=1998 |title=Land of Milk and Honey : The story of traditional Irish food and drink |publisher=Mercier Press |isbn=1-85635-210-2 |location=Dublin, IE |pages=135–137 |oclc=39935389 |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39935389}}</ref> There was a saying that "if you eat goose on Michaelmas Day you will never lack money all year".<ref name=":2" /> Tenant farmers sometimes presented the geese to their landlords, as could be stipulated in their tenancy agreements. The custom dates to at least the 15th century, and was easily continued as geese are in their prime at Michaelmas time.<ref name=":2" /> 

One association of geese with Michaelmas comes from a legend in which the son of an Irish king choked on a goose bone he had eaten, and was then brought back to life by [[Saint Patrick|St.&nbsp;Patrick]]. The king ordered the sacrifice of a goose every Michaelmas in honour of the saint. The Irish Michaelmas goose was slaughtered and eaten on the day; they were also presented as gifts or donated to the poor.
In parts of Ireland sheep were also slaughtered with tradition of the "St.&nbsp;Michael's portion" donated to the poor. Poultry markets and fairs took place to sell geese as well as mutton pies.<ref name=":0"/> In [[Ulster]], it was traditional for tenants to present their landlord with a couple of geese, a tradition dating back to [[Edward IV of England|Edward&nbsp;IV]]. There were differing methods across Ireland for cooking the goose, most generally using a heavy iron pot on an open hearth. In [[Blacklion]], County Cavan, the goose was covered in local blue clay and placed at the centre of the fire until the clay broke, indicating the goose was cooked.<ref name=":1"/>

Another legend surrounding the origin of the Michaelmas goose is that [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth I]] was eating a goose on the holiday when she heard of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and thus proclaimed that geese should be eaten by everyone each year in commemoration of the victory. This falls apart when the date (geese and Michaelmas were connected at least a century earlier, if not longer) and the timing of the battle (August) are considered.<ref name=":2" />

The custom of baking a special bread or cake, called {{lang|gd|Sruthan Mhìcheil}} ({{IPA|gd|ˈs̪t̪ɾu.an ˈviːçal}}), ''St.&nbsp;Michael's bannock'', or ''Michaelmas bannock'', on the eve of the Feast of Saint Michael, the Archangel, probably originated in the Hebrides. The bread was made from equal parts of barley, oats, and rye without using any metal implements.<ref name=cooks>{{cite web
 |author=Oulton, Randal W.
 |date=13 May 2007
 |title=Michaelmas Bannock
 |website=Cooksinfo.com
 |url=https://www.cooksinfo.com/michaelmas-bannock
 |access-date=29 September 2015
}}
</ref>
In remembrance of absent friends or those who had died, special ''Struans'', blessed at an early morning Mass, were given to the poor in their names.<ref>
{{cite web
 |last=Goldman |first=Marcy
 |date=c. 2014
 |title=Peter Reinhart's struan: The harvest bread of Michaelmas
 |website=BetterBaking.com
 |url=http://www.betterbaking.com/struan.php
 |access-date=13 May 2015 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222233700/http://www.betterbaking.com/struan.php
 |archive-date=22 February 2014
}}
:''Also here''
{{cite web
 |author=Reinhart, Peter
 |date=16 May 2017
 |title=Struan: The harvest-bread of Michaelmas
 |website=wbtv.com
 |publisher=[[WBTV]]
 |place=Charlotte, NC
 |type=article & recipe
 |url=https://www.wbtv.com/story/35441293/struan-the-harvest-bread-of-michaelmas/
}}
</ref>

Nuts were traditionally cracked on Michaelmas Eve.<ref>
{{cite news
 |last=Koenig |first=Chris
 |date=21 September 2011
 |title=Merry times at the Michaelmas Feast
 |newspaper=[[The Oxford Times]]
 |place=Oxford, UK
 |url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/lifestyle/history/9263878.Merry_times_at_the_Michaelmas_Feast/
 |access-date=27 March 2014
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327234542/http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/lifestyle/history/9263878.Merry_times_at_the_Michaelmas_Feast/
 |archive-date=27 March 2014
}}
:''Also here''
{{cite news
 |last=Koenig |first=Chris
 |date=21 September 2011
 |title=Merry times: Michaelmas feast
 |newspaper=[[The Oxford Mail]]
 |place=Oxford, UK
 |url=https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9263878.merry-times-michaelmas-feast/
 |access-date=2022-10-15
 }}
</ref>

Folklore in the British Isles suggests that Michaelmas day is the last day that blackberries can be picked. It is said that when St.&nbsp;Michael expelled the devil, Lucifer, from heaven, he fell from the skies and landed in a prickly blackberry bush. Satan cursed the fruit, scorched them with his fiery breath, stamped, spat, and urinated on them, so that they would be unfit for eating. As it is considered ill-advised to eat them after 11&nbsp;October (Old Michaelmas Day according to the [[Julian Calendar]]), a Michaelmas pie is made from the last of the season.<ref name=bbc/> In Ireland, the soiling of blackberries is also attributed to a [[púca]].<ref name=":0"/>