We have a tradition that ends Summer, I forget the exact details of it, but I'm fairly certain that a bit of it has to do with throwing a big rock into a river, and said rock is supposed to like, cool the river, making it start the cooling down of everything as winter start slowly creeping in. It's like the end of swimming outside seasonAuriene wrote:We had a rather wintry Spring Equinox this year - cold, gloomy and with a bit of snow
Where I live, we've got a very old tradition connected to the first day of spring, "drowning of Marzanna" - children are making a small Marzanna doll (symbol of winter) of twigs and straw. Then they carry Marzanna to the local river and they toss it into the water, to chase away the winter for good.
I doubt there's an English version, but Finnish Wikipedia page for it does exist