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src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5b9b62a32100003000c4ba57.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale"/></picture></div><div class="cli-image__spacer"></div><div class="cli-image__source-wrapper"></div></figure><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>What is it about leap years that makes people superstitious about marriage?</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>In Greece, getting married in a leap year is <a href="http://www.anagnosis.gr/index.php?la=eng&pageID=151" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="considered inauspicious" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.anagnosis.gr/index.php?la=eng&pageID=151" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0">considered inauspicious</a>, and the relationship is thought likely to end in divorce.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Women in Finland <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/leap-year-law-marriage-proposals-and-leap-year-birthday-leapers" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="are advised to propose only on leap-year day" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.squidoo.com/leap-year-law-marriage-proposals-and-leap-year-birthday-leapers" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1">are advised to propose only on leap-year day</a> -- Feb. 29 -- for good luck. If her boyfriend should refuse, he is required to pay her a "fine": enough fabric to make a skirt.</p></div><div class="cli cli-advertisement advertisement-holder"><div class="advertisement-sticky-wrapper"><div class="advertisement__label">Advertisement</div><div class="advertisement"><div id="ad-inline-1" class="ad-entry_paragraph_1 ad-spot--gam ad-spot--gam-inline-1"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> HPGam.cmd.push(function(){ return HPGam.render("inline-1", "entry_paragraph_1", false, false); }); </script> </div></div></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>In Scotland, an unmarried Queen Margaret <a href="http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=dlsc_ua_wku_hist" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="allegedly enacted a law in 1288" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=dlsc_ua_wku_hist" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="2">allegedly enacted a law in 1288</a> allowing women to propose on leap-year day. But there was <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/187/9/670.2.full.pdf+html" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="a catch" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/187/9/670.2.full.pdf+html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="3">a catch</a>: The proposer had to wear a red petticoat (a skirt under her skirt) to warn her intended that she planned to pop the question.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Perhaps the most well-known of the leap-year marriage superstitions belongs to Ireland, where, again, women are advised to propose only on Feb. 29 for good luck. (Anyone remember <a href="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1952703,00.html" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="the 2010 film" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1952703,00.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="4">the 2010 film</a>, "Leap Year"?) </p></div><div class="cli cli-advertisement advertisement-holder"><div class="advertisement-sticky-wrapper"><div class="advertisement__label">Advertisement</div><div class="advertisement"><div class="outbrain-module">  <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-src="" data-widget-id="SVD_1"></div> </div> </div></div></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Legend has it that <a href="http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Brigid%2C_Saint" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="St. Brigid of Kildare" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Brigid%2C_Saint" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="5">St. Brigid of Kildare</a>, a fifth-century Irish nun, asked <a href="http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=dlsc_ua_wku_hist" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="St. Patrick" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=dlsc_ua_wku_hist" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="6">St. Patrick</a>, the patron saint of Ireland, to grant permission for women to propose marriage after hearing complaints from single women whose suitors were too shy to propose. Initially, he <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/187/9/670.2.full.pdf+html" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="granted women permission to propose" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/187/9/670.2.full.pdf+html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="7">granted women permission to propose</a> only once every seven years, but at Brigid's insistence, he acquiesced and allowed proposals every leap day. The <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/187/9/670.2.full.pdf+html" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="folk tale suggests" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/187/9/670.2.full.pdf+html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="8">folk tale suggests</a> that Brigid then dropped to a knee and proposed to Patrick that instant, but he refused, kissing her on the cheek and offering a silk gown to soften the blow. The <a href="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/187/9/670.2.full.pdf+html" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Irish tradition therefore dictates" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/187/9/670.2.full.pdf+html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="9">Irish tradition therefore dictates</a> that any man refusing a woman's leap-day proposal must give her a silk gown.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>If you think these stories sound unrealistic, you're not the only one with doubts.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Scholars have pointed out that, in Scotland, Queen Margaret would have been <a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/Scottish%20Monarchs(400ad-1603)/DescendantsofMalcolmIII/Margaret.aspx" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="just 5 years old" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.royal.gov.uk/HistoryoftheMonarchy/Scottish%20Monarchs(400ad-1603)/DescendantsofMalcolmIII/Margaret.aspx" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="10">just 5 years old</a> when the alleged leap-year proposal law was enacted, making it unlikely that she fretted over a woman's right to request a hand in marriage. Plus, historians have been <a href="http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=dlsc_ua_wku_hist" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="unable to find any reference" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=dlsc_ua_wku_hist" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="11">unable to find any reference</a> to the supposed law on the books.</p></div><div class="cli cli-advertisement advertisement-holder"><div class="advertisement-sticky-wrapper"><div class="advertisement__label">Advertisement</div><div class="advertisement"><div id="ad-inline-2" class="ad-entry_paragraph_3 ad-spot--gam ad-spot--gam-inline-2"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> HPGam.cmd.push(function(){ return HPGam.render("inline-2", "entry_paragraph_3", false, false); }); </script> </div></div></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>The roots of the Irish tradition are dubious as well. St. Brigid was just <a href="http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Brigid%2C_Saint" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="9 or 10 years old" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://oce.catholic.com/index.php?title=Brigid%2C_Saint" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="12">9 or 10 years old</a> when St. Patrick <a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110316-saint-patricks-day-2011-march-17-facts-ireland-irish-nation/" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="died in 461 A.D." data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110316-saint-patricks-day-2011-march-17-facts-ireland-irish-nation/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="13">died in 461 A.D.</a> -- though some put this date closer to <a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11554a.htm" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="493 A.D." data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11554a.htm" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="14">493 A.D.</a> -- making the pair's friendship unlikely. </p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Regardless of the truth behind the traditions, however, <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/02/leap_year_postcards_from_the_early_20th_century_showing_women_proposing_to_men_.html" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="many argue" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/02/leap_year_postcards_from_the_early_20th_century_showing_women_proposing_to_men_.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="15">many argue</a> that the "holiday" is decidedly anti-feminist and should be abolished. </p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Katherine Parkin, <a href="http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/37/1/85.full.pdf+html" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="an expert on the tradition's history in the U.S." data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/37/1/85.full.pdf+html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="16">an expert on the tradition's history in the U.S.</a>, wrote: "From 1904 into the 1960s, shame and ridicule made it difficult for women to take advantage of the opportunity to propose to men. Critics held that women who asked men to marry them were desperate, aggressive, and unfeminine." In an age of increasing equality for women, it would seem that offering special permission to propose once every four years would be laughable at best, and insulting at worst. </p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>But Lynn Niedermeier, an author <a href="http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=dlsc_ua_wku_hist" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="who has written on the history" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=dlsc_ua_wku_hist" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="17">who has written on the history</a> of leap-year proposals, says the tradition can actually be empowering to women. "You could argue that the tradition is not as 'anti-feminist' as it first appears. It could be seen as something that allows the ladies to shake off their cultural shackles and take charge when the objects of their affection are too inexperienced or timid to propose," she told HuffPost Weddings. "I think the leap-year tradition may have taken on a more anti-feminist cast when it got mixed up with <a href="http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Sadie Hawkins Day" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.lil-abner.com/sadiehawk.html" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="18">Sadie Hawkins Day</a>, where the idea is that women need extra help to make up for their own deficiencies, not men's."</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Niedermeier might be right, given that many women who want to get engaged take advantage of the leap year tradition and propose, saying they're tired of waiting to be asked.</p></div><div class="cli cli-advertisement advertisement-holder"><div class="advertisement-sticky-wrapper"><div class="advertisement__label">Advertisement</div><div class="advertisement"><div id="ad-inline-infinite" class="ad-repeating_dynamic_display ad-spot--gam ad-spot--gam-inline-infinite"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> HPGam.cmd.push(function(){ return HPGam.render("inline-infinite", "repeating_dynamic_display", false, false); }); </script> </div></div></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Last leap year, in 2008, for example, <a href="http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/local-news/lorraine_proposes_to_her_man_live_on_air_1_1416934" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="a British woman proposed" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.eastbourneherald.co.uk/news/local-news/lorraine_proposes_to_her_man_live_on_air_1_1416934" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="19">a British woman proposed</a> to her boyfriend live on the radio on Feb. 29. </p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>"After nine years together and no ring, I thought it was time I took matters into my own hands," said the bride, Lorraine Sayers, after popping the question.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>That same year, another British woman, Sally Metcalf, took the plunge, proposing to her boyfriend, Steve Metcalf, on bended knee after 10 years of dating: "I don’t regret doing the proposing myself because Steve always said he would never marry me and it would be a very long engagement, so I was fed up waiting," <a href="http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4497623.Leap_Year_proposal_couple_tie_the_knot_at_last/" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="she said" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/4497623.Leap_Year_proposal_couple_tie_the_knot_at_last/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="20">she said</a>. 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Do they really need a special day to do this?</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>What do you think? Let us know in the comments.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p>Check out the video below to see a 2008 leap-year proposal.</p></div><div class="primary-cli cli cli-text "><p><em>Top photo from Flickr user <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34128007@N04/" target="_hplink" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="prayitno" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5b9b62a3e4b03a1dcc771c46" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/photos/34128007@N04/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="article_body" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="21">prayitno</a></em></p></div></section><h2 class="entry__tags-title">Related</h2><section class="entry__tags js-cet-subunit "><a class="entry__tag js-entry-link cet-internal-link" href="https://www.huffpost.com/life/topic/weddings" data-vars-item-name="weddings" 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