St Bridget's Day, 1 February, the first of the Manx quarter days. Rushes gathered and laid at the threshold with a spoken invitation: Brede, Brede, tar gys my thie, Bridget, Bridget, come to my house. Was this a Christian saint's day or something connected to the Celtic goddess Brigid? Both. Neither. It was what the Manx people did on the first of February, and they had always done it. The crossing point between the Celtic goddess and the Christian saint was so seamless that nobody needed to choose. The accommodation at work in a doorway.