SEPTEMBER
September takes its name from the Latin word, septem, meaning seven. It was the seventh month of the year as long as March was constituted the first month. The Saxons named it Gerst Monat, or barley month, because they reaped the barley then.
Sayings regarding the month:—
(a) If it be fair on the First, it will be fair all the month.
(b) A wet June makes a dry September.
(c) September blow soft,
Until the fruit is in the loft.
(d) If Matthew's Day (Sept. 21st) is bright and clear
There will be good wine in the coming year.
(e) If the hart and the hind meet dry and part dry on Rood Day
Fair (Sept. 14th), for six weeks there will be no more rain.
(f) If on September 19th there is a storm from the south, a mild
winter is certain.
(g) If it does not rain on St. Michael's (Sept. 29th) and Gallus
(Oct. 16th), a dry spring is certain for the coming year.
(h) If St. Michael's (Sept. 29th) brings many acorns, Christmas will
cover the fields with snow.
(i) So many days old the moon on Michaelmas Day (Sept. 29th), so
many floods after.
(j) Michaelmas chickens and parsons' daughters never come to good.