Devon / Westcountry weather lore #8 - Candlemas day

Candlemas Day by Marianne Stokes 1901 - Via Wikipedia

"If the weather on Candlemas Day, February 2nd, be bright and dry, there will be a long continuance of cold wintry weather.

or,

If Candlemas Day be dry and fair,
The half of the winter is to come, and mair,
If Candlemas Day be wet and foul,
The half of the winter is gone at yule.

or,

If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another fight,
But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain,
Winter is gone, and will not come again.

Remove all Christmas decorations before Candlemas Day.

Down with the rosemary and the bays,
And down with the mistletoe,
Instead of the holly now upraise
The bright green box for show.

 

or,

If so the superstitious find,
One tiny branch just left behind,
Look ! for every leaf there may be,
So many goblins shall plague thee."

Hewett 1900