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 CLASSIFIED CATALOGUE BRAND MATERIAL.

{Continued from p. 304.)

OF

CHRISTMASTIDE— December 24TH-JANUARY i2TH.

ENGLAND.

I. Names.

Yule (more frequently used in com- pounds, as Yule-log, Yule-cake, than alone) - -. -

Christmas (literary English) " The " Christmas (provincial)

II. Natural Phenomena. [a) Weather Omens.

The Twelve Days of Christ- mastide prognosticate the twelve months' weather -

Day of week on which Christ- mas Day falls piognosti- cates year's weather (each day signifies different con- ditions) - - - -

Christmas moon waxing fore- tells good year ; waning, a bad one

locality.

Northumbd., Durham, Westmd., Cumbd., Yorkshire, Lanes.,

Derbyshire, Notts., Lines.

INlidlands and South.

Ditto (occasionally).

G. Markham, 1614. T. WiUsford, 1658. Aubrey, 1689.

15th cent.

North Country, Welsh

Border (Oswestry ), Devon.

Markham, 161.