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The Feast Day of the Intervention of the Holy cross on 3 May was the main date in the calendar of the blessing of the seedbeds in spring, with blessed crosses being placed in the fields<ref>ETNIKER EUSKALERRIA. ''Casa y Familia en Vasconia.'' Atlas Etnográfico de Vasconia = Euskalerriko Atlas Etnografikoa = Atlas Etnographique du Pays Basque. Volumes I & II. Bilbao: Etniker Euskalerria; [Vitoria-Gasteiz]: Eusko Jaurlaritza; [Pamplona]: Government of Navarra- Bilbao: Labayru Institute, 2011, pp. 735-754.</ref>.

Until the 1950s and 1960s, spells were said in many chapels and parish churches against hail and lightning or the evil spirits considered to cause storms.