Groundhog Day, the US tradition where the seasons are predicted by a groundhog, was made world famous by the Bill Murray film of the same name. But did you know the tradition’s origins lie in Europe? Every year spectators descend in their thousands on the town of Punxsutawney in Pennsylvania, US, to view the legendary Punxsutawney Phil make his prediction of the year’s weather. Folklore has it that if the celebrity rodent sees his shadow at daybreak and runs away, he is predicting that there will be six more weeks of winter. If there’s no shadow, there will be an early spring. According to rec…