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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.