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St Luke’s summer St Luke’s summer – лето святого Луки, золотая осень; бабье лето St Luke’s Day is often at the centre of a spell of particularly fine weather known as St Luke’s (Little) Summer. It refers to a period of unseasonably warm weather occurring around the time of St Luke’s feast day: October 18. The unexpected arrival of a St Luke’s Summer (or, as it is also called Indian Summer) ups the already bitter-sweet ante of autumn. St Luke’s Day is also known as Dog Whipping Day, when all the stray dogs in the streets had to be whipped out of town. Traditionally a day when girls could have some insight into their future marriage prospects. Before going to bed they must put on their faces a mixture of spices, honey and vinegar, and once in bed they must say the following rhyme: St Luke, St Luke, be kind to me, In dreams let me my true love see. St Martin’s summer – лето святого Мартина, золотая осень; бабье лето In former times in Europe, “Indian summer” was called Saint Martin’s Summer, referring to St Martin’s day, November 11, when it was supposed to end. The phrase Saint Martin’s Summer is still widely used in France, where Saint Martin of Tours died on November 8, AD 397. His corpse was claimed by people of two provinces. The latter pilfered him and brought him on a boat by the river Loire to Tours where he was and still is buried. Legend has it that the river banks flowered as his corpse went by from Candes (now called Candes-Saint-Martin) to Tours. St Nicholas’ clerk (archaic) – рыцарь святого Николая; вор, бандит с большой дороги Thief, highwayman. In the Middle Ages robbers and thieves always called themselves Knights or Clerks of St Nicholas. St Nicholas of Myra was a patron saint of travelers. An ambiguous term; a word susceptible of different significations; equivoque on the word Nick. 156