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Title: Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District

Author: Charles Dack

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Language: English

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WEATHER AND FOLK LORE
OF
PETERBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.

BY
CHARLES DACK.

PUBLISHED BY AND FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE

PETERBOROUGH
NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENTIFIC,
AND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

1911.

PETERBOROUGH:
CHARLES HAWKINS, PRINTER, KING STREET

[Illustration: MAY DAY, AT GLATTON, HUNTS.
1856.
FROM A DRAWING BY
THE REV. E. Bradley, (_Cuthbert Bede_).]

_Old Customs! Oh! I love the sound.
However simple they may be,
What e'er with time hath sanction found,
Is welcome and is dear to me.
John Clare._

WEATHER AND FOLK LORE OF PETERBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.

(Second Series).

This is a continuation of a Paper on the "Survival of Old Customs" in
Peterborough and the neighbourhood which was read at the Royal
Archaeological Society's meeting in 1898, with an addition of a few more
old customs, and more particulars of others, to which I have also added
a collection of the quaint Weather and Folk Lore of this district. Being
at a point where four counties are almost within a stone's throw,
Peterborough possesses the traditions of the Counties of Huntingdon,
Cambridge, and Lincoln, as well as Northampton. It is rather difficult
to locate these sayings to one particular County, so I have taken those
current within a radius of about fifteen miles.

Most of them have been repeated to me personally and only in a very few
cases have I copied any which have been printed and then only to make
the collection more complete.

The two Northamptonshire Poets, Dryden and John Clare, often notice the
phases of the Weather, and John Clare, especially, describes the Rural
Customs and