Settle in with your spindle this evening to mark  St. Distaff Day. Yes, a distaff is an object, not a person, but the English name for today  is, indeed, St. Distaff. Less poetically minded people may refer to this as Roc Day, “roc” being a synonym used mainly in northern Europe for a distaff. This… More On the close of St. Distaff Day