#childermas
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #childermas from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-10 06:42 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-10 06:42 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-10 06:42 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 9 public posts (spanning ~26308 hours).
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Today is the #4thDayofChristmas otherwise known as #InnocentsDay or #Childermas, so here is an #anonymous #17thCentury #ballad #carol for the day from Good and true, fresh and new #Christmas #carols, 1642. To be sung to the tune of the Span
My theory: the day was so holy and somber, the #GawainPoet took it for granted that no one would be feasting, hunting, or playing games then, so he simply left it out of the poem and fast-forwarded to the start of Gawain and Bertilak’s exch
It’s December 28th, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, or #Childermas which commemorates King Herod’s murder of children in his attempt to find the Christ child. For scholars of the #GawainPoet this is the infamous “missing day” from the poem
What “childermas” means
WikipediaThe Massacre of the Innocents is a story recounted in the Nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew (2:16–18) in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children who are two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. It is modeled by the story of Pharaoh's attempt to kill the Israelite children in the Book of Exodus, as told in an expanded version that was current in the 1st century. Most scholars find no support for the historicity of Matthew's account of
“Massacre of the Innocents” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#childermas across platforms
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