>>17895772candlemass is a religious holiday and juneteenth is a civic holiday
also, it is not just a larp, it has a point to it. the traditions of groundhog day are not special to candlemas, every day in the liturgical calendar has folklore attached to it to help people predict the weather and the seasons, and in the regions these traditions originate through generations of experience people have actually developed extremely accurate meteorological predictions (at least if you account for the dissonance intern-migration/the gregorian reform caused)
