If on Christmas Day, or Christmas Eve, you hang a wash-clout on a hedge, and then groom the horses with it, they will grow fat.
As often as the cock crows on Christmas Eve, the quarter of corn will be as dear.
If a dog howls the night before Christmas, it will go mad within the year.
If the light is let go out on Christmas Eve, some one in the house will die.
When lights are brought in on Christmas Eve, if any one's shadow has no head, he will die within a year; if half a head, in the second half-year.
If a hoop comes off a cask on Christmas Eve, some one in the house will die that year.
If on Christmas Eve you make a little heap of salt on the table, and it melts over night, you will die the next year; if, in the morning, it remain undiminished, you will live.
If you wear something sewed with thread spun on Christmas Eve, no vermin will stick to you.
If a shirt be spun, woven, and sewed by a pure, chaste maiden on Christmas Day, it will be proof against lead or steel.
If you are born at sermon-time on Christmas morning, you can see spirits.