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Catalogue of Brand Material,
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A (moon)light Christmas, a
light harvest - A dark Christmas, a heavy
harvest ^ - If Christmas Day 2 be bright
and clear there'll be two
winters in the year - A green Christmas makes a
fat churchyaid ^
If the ice will bear a goose ^ before Christmas, it will not bear a duck after it -
LOCALITY.
Lines.. Norfolk.
Hunts.
Herefordshire.
Suffolk, Devon, General.
and
North Country Cheshire.
Norfolk.
Thunder in December fore- tells fine weather - - " In some parts." Thunder at Christmas, hard
winter, fruitful year later - Cheshire. A windy Christmas, a good
year . - . - North Country.
A windy Christmas Day, a
good crop of fruit - - Herefordshire. Sunshine on (or through) the apple-tree branches be- tokens a good crop of apples Lines., Norf., ^Northants, Derbyshiie, Staffs., Salop, Herefordshire, Devon, Berks.
Herefordshire. Wore.
Devon.
Sunshine on Christmas morn- ing forebodes accidents by lire
" Hours of sun on Christmas Day, so many frosts in month of May "
Plants. Rosemary blooms at midnight
on Christmas Eve - - Berks., Glos. (Dean Forest, 1822, St. Briavels) .
^ A /^^^/ Christmas, a heavy sheaf (North Country).
" Ember Day (Cheshire).
" " Yule " and " kirkyard " (North Country).
•• " man " (Notts.) ; "horse " (Norfolk).
' C/<f Christmas Day (Norfolk).
