The same condition applies to Brazil. We
might call the almanac the colonist's encyclopedia. It is his
agricultural guide, medical adviser, compendium of short stories and
poetry, moral guide, diary, and a thousand and one other things in
addition to being the source of the information which an almanac is
ordinarily supposed to furnish, i.e., list the change of seasons, days
and months of the year, feast-days, eclipses, etc. To persons acquainted
only with the folk-almanacs in Europe and North America, the entire lack
of weather-forecasts in the Brazilian German editions is striking.
Among the best known and most important German folk-almanacs in Brazil
are:
_Rothermund's Kalender fuer die Deutschen in Brasilien_, published
in Sao Leopoldo and Cruz Alta, R.G. do Sul;
_Uhle's illustrierter deutsch-brasilianischer Familien-Kalender_,
published in Rio and Curityba;
_Der Familienfreund_, published in Porte Alegre;
_Riograndenser Marienkalender_, published in Porto Alegre;
and
_Musterreiters Neu-Historischer Kalender_, published in Porto
Alegre.
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