...(Luke 2, 32). Candlemas Day is another of those which has traditional weather lore attached to it: 'If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again.' Tradition also names the...

...centuries, Candlemas Day was thought to mark an important point in winter, possibly a turning point. "If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight. But if Candlemas brings clouds and rain, winter is gone and won't come again." Later, bears, badgers, and woodchucks...

...long been associated with the idea of forecasting the coming of spring. An old English poem states: "If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight." If Candlemas Day be cloud and rain, Then winter will not come again." Many early peoples believed that...

...Groundhog Day in the States, is known as Candlemas Day elsewhere. There is a parallel between the two: If Candlemas Day be fair and bright Winter will have another flight. The groundhog's seeing his shadow in sunlight and going back underground because winter will be prolonged...

...there's morning sunlight), the prediction is another six weeks of winter. Just so, the folk saying goes: "If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight. If Candlemas day be shower and rain, winter is gone and will not come again." February 10 IO HOURS,...

...shine for fear of the pitiful remainder of winter to come."7 These gnomic phrases develop a proverb: 'If Candlemas day be fair and bright, winter will have another flight.' ' '8 However, in view of Flamineo's previous likening of himself to a 'spent taper', 'Candlemas' is...

...Si sol splendescat Maria purificante Major erit glades post festum quatn fuit ante." And again — " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have...and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." Candlemas Day is so called, from having been formerly celebrated with many candles, which, being sprinkled...

...as unlucky if the sun shines clear: — •• If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will bare another flight. But if Candlemas day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again." Another version runs thus : " Tls an omen bad, The yeomen Bay, If Phoebus shows his face The second...

...same effect is the old prediction — " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have anotlier flight; But if Candlemas day be clouds and rain Winter is gone, and will not come again." Very similar is the ancient Latin distich — " Si sol splendesc.it Maria purificante, Major erit glacies...

...way into English : — " If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; Bat if Candlemas day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again." * I must also call attention to the remarkable prejudice against Leap-year, a prejudice as common and...