Resumo. he purpose of this study is to bring the almanac to the interdisciplinary dialogical space of cultural and communicational studies. This paper reviews the history of the almanac, a narrative that merges scientific knowledge and popular lore, a cultural artifact with one side in the traditionalism and another in the contemporary world. The historiographical study combined with the theory of Folk Communication reveals the ways in which people experience and give meaning to the communication practices, distinguish the past and identify their culture. The Portuguese almanacs, "O Seringador" and "O Borda d`Água" are the empirical corpus: object folk comunicacional: visual, printed, almanac.