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Leap Year: A chance for women to pop the question?

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Resource: IrishCentral Ireland's folklore  is full of wonderful, funny, strange, but sometimes out-dated traditions and in this year of 366 days, we are greeted with one of the most well-known.  Yes, it is a leap year, and although you may have thought it was a myth, according to the old Irish tradition, this is the perfect chance for a woman to take matters into her own hands and get  down on one knee  on February 29.   Looking back through ancient Irish history, it is said that the tradition began in 5th century Ireland when St. Brigid of Kildare bitterly complained to  St. Patrick   that women had to wait far too long for men to propose.  The legend says that St. Patrick decreed the women could propose on this one day in February during the leap year. I'm sure the women were thrilled. The tradition was then taken to Scotland by Irish monks.  Back in 1288, the Scots passed a law that allowed a woman to propose marriage to the man of their dreams in a Leap