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The Christian holiday of Candlemas falls on February Second. Many traditions relting to Candlemas purport to predict the remaining time until spring. some of these relat to groundhogs, bot others to bears and marmots. So it seems likely that Groundhog day being of February 2nd derives from German settlers' in Pennsylvania and how they treated Candlemas

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Feb. 2nd is called a groundhog day because on that day, a special groundhog comes out of it's den (while people are watching) and determines weather we will have 6 more weeks of winter or if we will start spring.

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