If a baby gets its first tooth on a Friday the front teeth will come all right but no more.
If a baby commence to talk on a Friday it will, when grown up, stammer or remain mute altogether.
If the new year commence with a Friday all the crops will fail.
If a hen commence to sit on her eggs on a Friday the eggs become addled.[104]
St. Matthias. "It is better trust the ice after St. Matthias' Day than in you, my dear little maid." Erdélyi, vol. 3. Folk-Song No. 200.
St. George's Day is a very lucky day.
A butterfly caught before St. George's Day brings great luck.
Snakes caught before St. George's Day make a powerful medicine.
The skin of a marmot caught before St. George's Day will make a purse which will never be empty.