Feilebroc CULTURE — A festival. Feilebroc is one of four → Hidain (or Holy Days)—the festival of low winter. It falls on the first day of the second month and marks the coming of spring (is believed to conjure spring in many cultures). Life-size dolls (→ goddess dolls, fashioned to represent the Goddess of Spring, → Homủnre) are prepared and decorated with bright colors and → winter’s bane (when available; in warmer climates, → dragonferns are used) and are paraded from house to house until ultimately brought to the center of the village or city and burned. This burning is thought to light the way for the goddess Homủnre (the incarnation of Spring). Feilebroc is a time of divination that heralds the coming of the end of winter and the beginning of spring. It is a festival of hope since it celebrates the coming of new life (spring) in the dead (or center) of winter. It is also characterized by giving gifts and keeping an → embers pot burning. Its twin Hidain is → Tanneibel, which is the festival of low summer and marks the beginning of the harvest season (the first day of the eighth month).