mid-lent

Before Mid-Lent, even though I wear away my legs to the knees!

By roysterers who had been drinking at the taverns of the Barrier, for it was Mid-Lent.

Twenty-one days after Mardi Gras is the Thursday of Mid-Lent (Mi-Carême).

However, it has a more Christian connotation since it is burned on Mid-Lent Thursday, as depicted in the film Amarcord by Federico Fellini.

The other names attributed to this festival include Refreshment Sunday, Pudding Pie Sunday (in Surrey, England), Mid-Lent Sunday.

Stamford Mid-Lent fair sees showmen converge on the town the week after Mothering Sunday, with rides and sideshows filling Broad Street, the Sheepmarket and the Meadows for a week.

In Italy and Spain, a curious tradition of "segare la vecchia" ("sawing the old woman") was upheld on Laetare Sunday (Mid-Lent Sunday) in hamlets and towns, well into the 19th century.