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 CLASSIFIED BRAND

CATALOGUE MATERIAL.

OF

{Continued frofn Vol. XX\'II., p. 217.)

Readers are requested to assist the Brand Revision Committee by reading this Hst carefully, dull though the task may be, and by writing to the Committee (c/o F. A. Milne, Esq.) on the subject. The Catalogue needs supplementing on manj' points, and probably correcting. Information of the recent observance of any custom is especially welcome, even when the informant can add no further details.

C. S. BURNE, Hon. Sec. Brand Committee.

NOVEMBER

First Month of the " Winter Quarter (November to February).

Called the " Dead Quarter " -

November called the " Hangin^

[i.e. suicidal month). Bp the Month of the Dead - the Month of Mourning -

" The Dead Days," query ?

Dead Man's Day, November 20th -

Ghosts and evil spirits powerful through- out month (see November 30th)

Weddings unlucky -

Weather Omens.

Frost in November, a muddy winter

A mild winter, much sickness - Thunder in winter, war in summer - " Winter thunder, summer's wonder

LOCALITY.

- Glos. (Minchinhampton) Month " Hone, E.D.B. I. 1419.

Warburton, 1749.

- Ireland.

Ireland.

Ireland. Wales

Hereford, Devon and

General. General. Wales. English Proverb.