St Martin of Bullion’s Day

4 July keeps the moving of St Martin’s remains to the cathedral of Tours, and in Scotland it was called St Martin of Bullion’s Day. The weather on it was thought to foretell the season. A proverb said that if the deer rose dry and lay down dry on Bullion’s Day, there would be a good gose-harvest, gose being the latter end of summer, so an early harvest. Across Europe, rain on the day was taken to mean wet weather for the twenty days after.