One odd little fact about the English that goes all the way back to pagan times is that we (like others) reckoned the beginning of a given day to be the evening rather than the morning

So if it was Tiw& #39;s Day, at sunset it would become Woden& #39;s Eve

Sunset on Woden& #39;s Day would begin Thunor& #39;s Eve

Tacitus writing about the Germanic peoples in general: & #39;Instead of reckoning by days as we do, they reckon by nights& #39;

For a stark reminder of this: what& #39;s the term we still use in England for a period of two weeks?

Midsummer& #39;s Night, as in the Dream, was actually Midsummer Eve - the night *before* Midsummer

Consider also: All Hallow& #39;s Eve, St John& #39;s Eve, Christmas Eve, and so on

All this because the & #39;eve& #39; wasn& #39;t a separate event to the day, but going by the old rule, it was the first part of the day itself