The Borrowing Days

March weather and a Highland variant

His Highland comparison has February borrow from January instead. There, cold and storms during the borrowed days are treated as a favourable sign.

William Henderson, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders, 1879, Chapter II, Days and Seasons; paragraphs beginning “Old people presage the weather” and “It is curious that in the country parts of Devonshire”

Verses call late March storms days borrowed from April and use them to forecast the season.

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William Henderson, incorporating the Wilkie manuscript and named correspondents, Notes on the Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders, new edition (W. Satchell, Peyton and Co. for the Folk-Lore Society, 1879), 1879, Chapter II, Days and Seasons; paragraphs beginning “Old people presage the weather” and “It is curious that in the country parts of Devonshire”Records late March weather divination, verses about March borrowing stormy days from April, and a Highland comparison where February borrows from January and cold is favourable.