Catalogue of Brand Material.
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Myrtle blooms at midnight locality.
on Christmas Eve - - ? Hants.
(c) Insects.
Bees sing in their hives at midnight on Christmas Eve
Bees sing the looth Psalm {d) Animals.
Sheep call " Bethlehem " Cattle stand up and low Cattle kneel
Northumbd. (Earsdon), Cumbd. (Whitbeck), Staffs. (Standon),\Vorc. (Alvechurch), "Wilts.
Lanes., Westmd.
Cheshire, Staffs.
Berks.
Cumbd. (Whitbeck),
Lanes., Wore. (Droit- wich), Glos. (Dean Forest, 1822, St. Briavels), Somerset, Northants, S.W.Wilts., Hants.
Norfolk (Tostead).
- Cheshire, Staffs.
Cheshire (Didsbury). (Mr. S. O. Addy.)
Cattle and horses kneel Dangerous to enter cowhouses
lest one should see them
kneeling - AH animals eat, drink, and talk Oxon. (Kinsham,
years since). Cocks crow all night to scare
ghosts - If a dog howls, he will go mad
during the year If you whet a scythe in a field
on Christmas Day all the
moles within hearing will
depart - - - - (Locality ?).
{e) Human Beings.
Children born at midnight on
Christmas Eve can see spirits Lines. Children born on Christmas
Day can see spirits - Children born on Christmas
Day cannot see spirits
[50
North Lines., Sussex.
(Denham, ii. 76, quoting Grose.)
" A child born on Christmas Day is fair and wise and good and gay "
2 D
Devon.
