Dogs barking on St Andrew’s night

Welsh girls who wanted to know where their future husbands would come from listened on St Andrew’s night for the direction in which the dogs barked. Spinsters could also go to bed without nightdresses and call on the saint to see their sweethearts in their sleep. A pewter tankard of freshly drawn beer foretold the weather: froth running over meant a wet year, froth heaped on top a dry one.