To break into the farm down the road

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I have always wanted to see if it's true that all the animals kneel down at midnight.

I have wellies and a flask of Prosecco

I have never heard this before, so this thread has me cracked up

Hefzi, that's lovely! They have the cross on their back anyway, so you can check that Chrimbo Factoid any time you like.

I can go and check on my sheep and report back if that's any good?

An old cannon at Chester Cathedral used to tell that the animals all speak at Midnight at Christmas.

I have never heard this. I will ask my DM when she arrives home later. She is full of information like this.

They know you, FiveGoMad. They will just pretend and eat grass and look at you all gone out. Then kneel when you leave.

Ah the goat suckles from the devil. I thought the devil suckled from the goat.... No idea why that makes a difference.

Is this true? I can get to a farm in about fifteen minutes but I might fall over on the way, if pps are watching their cats should I just watch my dog? He loves a churchyard too piss in

I can hide behind the hedge and peer in

I can also check on the cows in the barn at the back of our house which are not mine

This goat says get yer facts right Elll, before dissing it and its kin.

But do we have to wait till midnight to find out? Haven't rtft and havent fed rabbits yet, although I might not notice as they're quite low to the ground at the front anyway. Come to think of it DH has been missing for a while

I have it on good authority that cattle and sheep are mostly lying down at midnight. I have actually gone into a cowshed at 12 on Christmas to catch them kneeling but they were already settled. Maybe they knelt sneakily before I got there.

They probably just dip their heads in a little furry genuflection.

I have spent more than my fair share on Christmas eves in Byres and stables. On the occasions I was there the only thing kneeling was me. I have delivered a few Christmas miracles though.

You've got to watch goats: they are well cunning... but I didn't know that about the devil: does that mean they don't kneel at midnight? And I don't believe cats bow to anyone!

B33r our donkey did indeed have a cross: I spent a while convinced Jesus had ridden on him

Maybe it was all the pacing with hot towels beforehand, OldCrow. Long shift as holy doulas really took it out of them but it got twisted into some twee myth. Like Peter Rabbit and MrsTiggywinkle, whoever dreamed that load of toss up

Ahhhh, Lonecat

An old cannon at Chester Cathedral...

Ka-BOOM!

I read it as canon, in the context of the thread, SLP. I'm all about the B n E tonight, rather than the pedantry.

My dad always read the Thomas Hardy poem to us on Christmas Eve when we were children.

What couldn't happen with a Christmas Eve full moon like that.

Well for 3 years we had a cow that calved on Christmas Eve, she certainly wasn't kneeling down. Neither did I suddenly die, obviously! I see a lot of midnights in the sheds watching cows and sheep during calving and lambing, at midnight they are mostly all asleep but there'll be a couple pottering about and eating.