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246 THE MAGIC OF THE HORSE-SHOE profitable one for sowing, getting married, traveling, and blood-letting, but the thirteenth day was in bad repute among the Saxons, an evil day for undertaking any work. The fourteenth was good for all purposes, for buying serfs, marrying, and putting children to school ; whereas the sixteenth was profitable for nothing but thieving. The twenty-second was a proper time for buying villains, or agricultural bondmen, and a boy born on that day would become a p...hysician. The twenty-fifth was good for hunting, and a girl then born would be of a greedy disposition and a " wool-teaser." ^ In an English manuscript of the twelfth century mentioned in Chambers's " Book of Days," and known as the " Exeter Calendar," New Year's is set down as a Dies mala. As an illustration of the credulity preva- lent in England in the fifteenth century regarding the influences, meteorological and moral, of the occur- rence of important church festivals on particular days of the week, a few lines from a manuscript of the Harleian Collection in the British Museum are here quoted : — Lordlings all of you I warn, If the day that Christ was born Fell upon a Sunday, The winter shall be good, I say, But great winds aloft shall be ; The summer shall be fair and dry, * Rev.
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124.
246 THE MAGIC OF THE HORSE-SHOE profitable one for sowing, getting married, traveling, and blood-letting, but the thirteenth day was in bad repute among the Saxons, an evil day for undertaking any work. The fourteenth was good for all purposes, for buying serfs, marrying, and putting children to school ; whereas the sixteenth was profitable for nothing but thieving. The twenty-second was a proper time for buying villains, or agricultural bondmen, and a boy born on that day would become a p...hysician. The twenty-fifth was good for hunting, and a girl then born would be of a greedy disposition and a " wool-teaser." ^ In an English manuscript of the twelfth century mentioned in Chambers's " Book of Days," and known as the " Exeter Calendar," New Year's is set down as a Dies mala. As an illustration of the credulity preva- lent in England in the fifteenth century regarding the influences, meteorological and moral, of the occur- rence of important church festivals on particular days of the week, a few lines from a manuscript of the Harleian Collection in the British Museum are here quoted : — Lordlings all of you I warn, If the day that Christ was born Fell upon a Sunday, The winter shall be good, I say, But great winds aloft shall be ; The summer shall be fair and dry, * Rev.
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