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Catalogue of Bi'and Material.
LOCALITY.
Nov. I. Hallowmas Day
- Common.
Ridmas ? i -
- North Devon.
Souling Day -
- Salop and Cheshire.
Nov. 2. Souling Day -
- Salop and Cheshire.
Saumas Day -
- Whitby.
Oct. 31.
Nov. 2. Hollantide
- Lines., Northants, Wore,
Salop, Glos., Bucks,
Herts, Isle of Wight,
Wilts, Somerset, Corn-
wall.
31. Natural Phenomena. (a) Weather Omens.
The way the wind blows indi- cates the prevailing wind for the quarter -
The way the bull faces as he lies indicates the prevailing wind - - - -
Sunshine on the woods por- tends fat and prosperous pigs . - - -
A chip cut from a beech tree, if damp, foretells a wet season ; if dry, a dry one.
Frost at Hollantide, thaw at Christmas
Derbyshire, Cotswolds. Cumberland.
- Bucks, Cornwall.
{b) Apparitions, etc.
Those doomed to die during i\ the year parade through
the church porch
The doomed parade through the churchyard, preceded by the parish clerk - Devil proclaimed names of doomed from pulpit
(Cf. Rites of Divination, If two people walk round the room opposite ways, in darkness, at midnight on Hallowe'en, they will never meet - - - -
- Oxford.
Yorks. (Sedbergh).
Herefsh. (Dorstone). below.)
Yorks.
More probably Roodinas, 14th September.
