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).
his is a continuation of a Paper on the "Survival of Old Customs" in Peterborough and the neighbourhood which was read at the Royal Archæological 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.