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Catalogue of Brand Material,

(b)

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).