Note 935 — Chapter IX · UNLUCKY DAYS
Reading edition
Chambers’s Book of Days, i, 42. See also O. Cockayne, Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England, London, 1866, iii, 150-197, and John Aubrey’s quaint essay on “Day-fatality; or, Some Observations of Days Lucky and Unlucky” (Miscellanies upon Various Subjects, London, 1784, pp. 3-36). Some rules concerning “perilous days” are reprinted by Sir Lawrence Gomme from a fifteenth century manuscript (Folklore, 1913, xxiv, 121-123).