B33C. Loan days. .14.-.17.27.-.29.

A month on the border of winter and spring (usually March) takes (rarely: buys, steals) from the neighboring one several days.

Berbers of Morocco (Reef), Kabilas, Portuguese, Galicians, Spaniards, Catalans, Basques, Italians (Tuscany, Abruzzo, Calabria), Sicilians, Sardinians, Corsicans, Ladins, Maltese, French (Haute-Brittany, Poitou, Albray, Gascogne, Languedoc, Provence), Bretons, Irish, Scots, British, (Bretons), Palestinians, Romanians (Banat), Aramians, Bulgarians, Macedonians, Serbs, Montenegrins, Albanians, Greeks (Imbroz), Poles, Abkhazians, Ossetians (Dargins and Tsudakharians), Georgians (Kartli), Armenians.

North Africa. Moroccan Berbers (Reef): Westermark 1926:174 [February 25 to March 4 old-style - Háiyan period (8 days and 7 nights); it's called tamgart ("old woman"); old Tamgart lived at the foot of the river the highest mountain in the Ait Waráin area; one day it rained for the first three days of this period, the calves gathered under a canopy, she drove them out, telling them not to be afraid of the rain; then Háiyan took an evil day in March, to kill this old woman; March gave one day to February, now in March not 32 days, but 31; it became cold, it rained and snowed, T. and her herd turned into stones], 174-175 [the old woman brought goats and sheep to pasture; it was dry, she asked háiyan for rain; he asked March to give him one day; it rained so much that the old woman died and the herd returned to the village; háiyan is called the "owner of the snow"; in these days try not to leave the house, not go on the road, keep the sheep in the pen]; kabila: Arezki 2010 [on the last 30th day of January, the goat laughed at him because he passed without cold or snowfalls; said, "Get a big fart right in the eye that'll burst, brother January! The cold is over, the famine is over, it's almost spring!" To punish the goat, January borrowed an extra day from February, making it rainy and snowy; the goat died from cold and hunger that day; since then, January 31, which is usually snowy, windy and rainy, called "le prêt de la chèvre"]: 143-144; Frobenius 1921a, No. 12 [first plants, stones, earth, water talked, people understood their speech; the first mother of the world brought him all the misfortunes; she had a farm, there were sheep, cows, goats; January (Inäjer) was over, a snowball fell; the first mother of the world told the lamb not to be afraid, the month is over and nothing bad for him He would not do it anymore; January was offended, asked for a day from the cold February (Fórar), who gave 7 days and promised more if necessary; on the fourth day of frost and snowfall, the herds and the mother of the world herself turned into stones; January still brings misfortune to old women; during borrowed days they get sick and die]: 81-83.

Southern Europe. Catalans: Amades 1930 [After the first warm days in April, there are cold days called loan days or old woman's days; the old woman had lots of sheep; fearing that in March they might to freeze, the old woman kept the sheep in the pen when March came to an end, began to mock him ("blow it in my ass because you can't face"); it took 3 days in April, not the first days, but later, so take the old woman by surprise; the old woman took the herd to the pasture, the whole herd died]: 105-106; Kustova 1987 [after surviving the winter, the old woman scolds Mart that he was late, tells him to leave faster, brags that she saved in winter, the whole herd of sheep; insulted Mart begged April to lend him 3 days; all the sheep died from the cold, the old woman died of grief; these days are called old women or borrowed]: 25-30; Spaniards: Camarena, Chevalier 1997, No. 294 (everywhere, lots of records; also Catalans, Basques, Galicians) [shepherd: you pass and I stay and my whole herd safe; March to the shepherd: I have 2 more days left and the third loan is in April and I will make you wear a fur coat]: 438-439; Fernan Caballero 1974:110-115 to Golant 1913 (Andalusia) [shepherd Marta: if he behaves well, he will give him a gift he had a lamb; Mart promised to be warm, kept his promise; when he was about to leave, he asked the shepherd for lamb, but the shepherd, believing that Martha had only three days to rule, began to mock him, refused something- or give; March: With three days I still have and three days my godfather will lend me April, I will kill your sheep! lambs and sheep died from the cold]: 27; Hernández Fernández 2013, No. 294 (Murcia) [the seasons or months, specifically March, are arguing with each other; please leave March to the owner of the ram; if March will turn its tail, there will be no shepherd or herd (Disputas en forma de refranes entre las estaciones del año o entre los mes, con special atención a marzo: "Marzo marzueco, /déjame uno para morueco"; "Si marzo vuelve el rabo, /ni pastores ni ganados")]: 84; Portuguese: Shishlova 1971 (near the border with Extremadura, Idanha a Nova) [shepherds ask Mart to be merciful, promise lamb from each; March was warm; on March 29, old people want to take lambs; young: March is almost over, the cold will not come, there is no need to give anything; March takes one day for April, plus two the rest of his own, the cold wind and rain destroyed the crops, killed the herds]: 196-199; Correia 2018, No. 155 [the shepherd promised February lamb if he let everyone else be saved; at the end of February, seeing that the lambs grew up, said he would not give anything to February; he promised to give him a fun life for the remaining two days and the three more he would take in March]; the Basques [once Mart was especially harsh on the shepherds; crooked shepherd Marta: "Hurt you a ram"; insulted Mart decided to take revenge, but it was already noon on the 31st; then Mart asked April to lend him two and a half days and made a snowstorm; rivers and streams overflowed their banks, carried away the herd of the careless shepherd; when he saw that one ram caught on a tree branch, he dragged him to, saying, "At least I'll save you," but the ram fought back and, with his head, knocked out the shepherd's only eye; the shepherds fear the first days of April, once borrowed to Martha; Satrustegs 1990:34-35]: Golant 2013, No. 1. 11.2:250; Sicilians [1) Palermo; Şăineanu 1896:1-45; The old woman, seeing that March was over, spat after him, saying, "Get out! March is a dog!" ; Mart swore revenge, asked April for three days; on April 1, the old woman, seeing that the day was fine, released the sheep from the koshara and drove them to the mountain; a cloud appeared, the old woman and sheep died from heavy rain, hail and snow; March laughing: "E questo è Marzo cane!"] ; 2) Şăineanu 1896:1-45; the old woman wanted to marry a handsome guy; March: If you want to marry me, sleep this night on bricks and get married tomorrow; the old woman went to sleep on bricks in hoping for tomorrow night with a handsome guy; March took April's day and killed an old woman]: Golant 2013, No. 1.8.1.: 240-241; the Sardinians ["Finally you're over, the month of January, that threatened to destroy mine a herd of snow, now I'm not afraid of you, but I'm afraid of February" is a saying that shepherds remember on the last day of January; January: "Lend me two days that I'll give back when you're in front of me"; therefore February is two days less and "limp"]: Golant 2013, No. 1.8.2.: 196, 241; Italians: D'Aronco 1953, No. 1600 (Lucca) [31 days in March, as he took one day in April to take revenge to the shepherd who abused him]: 186; Kabakova 2006, No. 120 (Abruzzo) [=Golant 2013, No. 1. 8:242-243; the old lady ridiculed Mart, saying that her lamb already has horns and is no longer afraid of the cold; Mart replied that if the cold prolonged, the lamb would lose its horns; the old woman thought April would come tomorrow, continued to tease Mart; he asked April to lend him three days, April borrowed six; Mart took them, sent cold and the lamb died], 121 (Calabria) [the woman asked Mart if she could go dry her clothes; March promised sunny weather; but the storm began and the woman was washed away with water]: 185-186, 187-188; Kotrelev 1991 [The shepherd praises every month, especially March; the blizzard begins on the last day, the shepherd continues to praise; shortly before midnight he begins to scold; the offended Mart asked April to give him three days; the shepherd left a goat with a goat and a sheep with a sheep from the whole herd]: 265-267; Corsicans: Massignon 1984, No. 56 [On March 30, the shepherd believes that all dangers have passed and it has finally become warm; Mart calls Mart the son of a bastard, promises to make cheeses the size of a basket; Mart asks April to lend him three days; all the sheep died, only the spring, which the shepherd covered with a cheese cauldron, was saved ; since then, April 1, the weather is usually good, but the next three days are wind, cold and snow]: 133; Ortoli 1883, No. 1 [=Calvino 1984, No. 198:703-704; the shepherd has as many sheep and sheep as there are grains of sand in the sea; all In winter, he prayed for months to be favorable; they spared his herds; when March was over, the shepherd laughed and scolded March: "March, March, you, the storm of herds, I'm no longer afraid of you! Happy to stay, illnesses! March, March, spring is coming, you can't hurt me anymore!" March borrowed three days from his brother in April, brought winds, snowstorms and diseases to the herd; sheep and sheep died on the first day, lambs on the second day, and everything died on the third day]: 3-5 (=Kabakova 1998, No. 168: 183-184); ladins [the peasant raises sheep; the hay supply is running out, but February was warm; the peasant went to Mart, asking him to help with the weather - he promised to give the ram for this; when to the end March was 4 days left, the farmer announced to Marta that he would not give him any sheep - his days were running out; March took April's 3 days; "Now I'll make you let your sheep in front of the koshars gate!" (? lasse dir die Schafe vor dem Stalltor draufgehen)]: Brunold-Bigler, Widmer 2004, No. 62:323; Maltese [shepherd scolds dry January: the grass has withered, he is forced to keep the herd in the pen; furious January took my brother two days in February (less often one day; usually the motive is to explain the different number of days in January and February) and a thunderstorm began to rain so much that the shepherd drowned with the herd]: Mifsud-Chircop 1978, No. 480D: 133-134

Western Europe. The French: Pokrovskaya 1977 [the last three days of February and the last three days of March are considered unhappy, "Old Woman's days", borrowed days", which are often rainy; in Provence they say how an old woman, believing that the cold was over, made fun of February; then February took her brother March three days, caught up with the cold, the old woman's whole herd of sheep died; she bought it again cows, but history repeated itself]: 31; Kabakova 1998, No. 163 (Poitou) [=Golant 2013, No. 1.10.3.: 246; January was warm, lasted 29 days; on the last day, all the little birds began to mock him, O, Janviou, m'pas rester le crotte au quiou]; January took two days in February, it froze, the birds froze to the branches], 164 (Albre, Gascony) [=Golant 2013, No. 1.10.4.: 246; the thrush began to laugh at February - he it passed, but she didn't notice; February took three days in March, it started to rain cold, the thrushes died; and February is still doing so]: 180, 180-181; Kabakova 1998, No. 167 (Languedoc) [the old woman became to laugh at February - it is over and its cold did not hurt her; February took three days in April, froze the old woman's herd of sheep; at the end of March she laughed at March the same way; it took three days in April , the old woman's herd of cows died]: 182-183; the French (Haute-Brittany) [while February was making love, January and March stole one day from him; January: I filled all your ditches with water"; February: nothing, I'll dry it; March: I'll flood them]: Kabakova 1998, #165:181; Bretons [February lost dominoes one day each in January and March]: Kabakova 1998, No. 166:181; British (North England) [o future weather is judged by the last three days of March, which are called borrowed; there is a rhyme: March took April three days - the first with wind and slush, the second with snow and ice, the last with rain and by the wind, and poor stupid sheep must stomp to the house; And the other: Mart told April that he sees three old women on the hill; lend me three days, one with the wind, the other with snow, the third with frost, so that the birds froze to the branches; but when three days have passed, three stupid old women returned home; in Devonshire, these three days are called "blind", at which time you can't sow]: Henderson 1879:94-95; Irish: http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ACalend/BorrowedDays.html [the cow boasted that it was not afraid of the March cold; then March took three days in April and froze the cow; it is believed that the first three days April is very cold, called Laethanta na Riabhaiche, "loan days"; sometimes they were counted according to the Julian calendar; how March asked for days from April is said in an old ballad; parts of Northern Ireland tell how blackbird, chuckan (Pratincola rubicola), and a gray cow began teasing March when it was over; March took 9 days in April, three for each insulting him; about the same ideas about borrowing days in Scotland]; Plénard 2017 [On March 31, the cow, completely enraged by the cold of March, shouted: go to hell, March, April March is coming; March lasted 6 days in April, the cow died; these 6 days were the harshest of the whole year]: 95; Scots: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Borrowed+Days [in an old poem it is said that March took three days from April, promising to kill three sheep for it, but failed to fulfill its promise; 16th century sources say that the last days of March are more like winter than spring; mountainous Scotland February 12, 13 and 14 are considered borrowed from January; if there is a storm these days, the weather will be good, and if not, vice versa]; Abbott 1903 [March borrowed from Aperill/Three days and they were ill, /The first began wi' wind and weet/The next come in with snaw and sleep, /the third was sic a bitter freeze, /It frost the birds' claws to the trees (author's post); option adds" three hoggs upon a hill", but the sheep fortunately survived it all]: 24-25; Henderson 1879 [in mountainous Scotland February took January three days, promising three sheep; old-style, it's now between 11 and 15 February]: 95.

Western Asia. Palestinians [the first three days of March are called "borrowed"; old Bedawi drove her herd along the dry riverbed to the Dead Sea, mocking Shvat (February) for not sending rain; indignant Shvat asked his brother Adar (March) to lend him three days to take revenge on the old woman; it rained for six days, and the mudflow washed the old woman into the Dead Sea with her herd (Hanauer 1907:307f)]: Westermarck 1926:175 (=Hanauer 2009:281).

The Balkans. Romanians (Banat): Golant 2013:149-150 [Baba Docia had a daughter-in-law. And she made fun of her daughter-in-law. She sent her to the river to make her dark wool white and black wool out of white. But she rubbed (wool) and couldn't do it anymore, her daughter-in-law. And then Mother Mary came down to her and gave her two bouquets of flowers, cutters (jerukha, anemone), violets and yellowflowers, and said to her: "Oh, give them to your mother-in-law and tell her that the mountain gave her a jerukha (anemone), and yellowflower, and violet." Then she (her daughter-in-law) gave them to her mother-in-law. Then my mother-in-law said: Ahe, January has passed /With frost./Martsishor (reduced from "March") /I will send it to the zztsu. Then she took the dogs and the farm and the sheep and went to the mountains. There, on the mountain, the Lord God sent a storm, began to destroy everything around him, so that streams (rivers), rain, wind, and snow flowed. And then the Lord turned sheep, dogs, and servants into stone. Then the Lord cleansed her from her sins. Water came from her body, from this stone. At that time, the Lord could not ruin everything in March. He borrowed money from April for two weeks. Because of this, there are snowstorms and bad weather in April. People say: now they are borrowed (days), because of this bad weather], 189 [Baba Dokia sent her daughter-in-law to the river to make black wool white and black wool out of white wool; Mother Maria gave her bouquets of flowers, told her give her mother-in-law and say that it's already spring in the mountains; Baba Dokia took her dogs, farmhand and sheep, went to the mountains; storm, rain, snow have begun, they all petrified; the stone that Baba Bokia has turned into flows water; the Lord could not ruin all the days in March, took two weeks from April; the weather is bad on these borrowed days]; the Aromanians [{several texts; unlike Romanian ones, where the motive is for borrowed days rare, it is common in Aruanian ones, and the motive for turning into stones from which the spring flows is not always found}; the usual option: an old woman goes with her goats to the mountains, calls March a fart, says that lived to see April; March takes days from February, freezing the old woman and her herd]: Golant 2013, No. 1.1.10.: 219-223; Bulgarians: Golant 2013, No. 1.3.1 (Ruse) [Baba Marta decided it was warm, went to the mountain with the goats; frost hit, it petrified, water still flows from under this stone; since then this month has been called March], 1.3.2 (Lovech) [the first three days of March are called borrowed; Baba Marta borrowed them from her brother February (Little Sechko) to freeze a shepherdess who was herding goats and her herd in the mountains; the shepherdess said that Marta would not do anything to her; on these three days they predict what the weather will be like in March, April and May], 1.3.3. (Pernik) [the old woman kicked the goats out in Stara Planina on March 1, saying that she was a woman and Marta was a woman and would not do anything to her; Marta's brother February (Sechko) asked for a loan of three days; therefore, these days are called borrowed; grandmother, dogs and goats are stiff; the grandmother peed, since then the source has been there], 1.3.4. (Kostendil) [Sechko had fewer days than his sister Martha; the old woman raised sheep and goats, told them not to be afraid of Sechko, promised to spoil his beard; Sechko borrowed three days from Marta, made it cold the old woman and herd were petrified], 1.3.5. (Blagoevgrad and non-localized options) [(about the same as in others - Baba Marta, loan days]: 225-227, 228, 229, 229-232; Trefilova 2012 (Tvyrditsy, Verkhnyaya Thrace) [Baba Marta (hence the name March ) was Marta's girlfriend; she drove sheep to the mountains, she was told that it was too early, she replied that March (the month) was a woman and she was a woman, let's agree; such frost hit the mountains, everything froze and turned into stones. And these stones are there]: 282; Bulgarians (Pazadzhishko) [February drank wine from Baba Marta (i.e. March) for not returning him the days she borrowed from him, so her mood changes all the time]: Kabakova 1994:215; Macedonians: Golant 2013, No. 1.4 [Marta borrowed days from Sechko (or April from Mart), froze a woman who drove her herd to the mountains and promised to spoil Sechko's beard]: 232-233; Douma 1893 [storms and cold are common in the first 9 days of March, they are called old woman's days (babele, babite); this was a long time ago and the woman's name was forgotten; at the end of February, after a cold winter, grass appeared for goats; March 2 it became warm and the woman took the goats to graze in the mountains; told them that there was nothing to fear, the terrible February was over, March would not be able to do anything; on March 8, the offended Mart went to February and asked for a loan to him although two days; February was 30 days old; the blizzard began, the old woman and her goats petrified; that's why February is called "sechko" ("short")]: 410-411; Serbs: Afanasiev 2008 [briefly and without reference to same source as Golan 2013]: 347; Golant 2013, no. 1.5.2. [the old woman drove the goats to the mountains, told Marta that she was not afraid of him, her goats were five-horned; March took April a few days, caught up with frost and snow, the old woman and goats froze and petrified; on the mountain, where is it happened, now you can see a big stone (old woman) and small ones around (goats)]: 234; Montenegrins (bilingual Slavic-Albanian communities in the Mrkovichi region in southern Montenegro) [examples from speech residents with. Velya-Gorana: tru š kaju se babi (letters. 'old women are shaking', from alb. shkunden plakat 'heavy snowfall at the end of March, when the weather deteriorates for a few days'); "Winter asked God to borrow three days. Three days on loan to freeze an old woman with everything she had. And God gave her three days of winter..."]: Sobolev et al. 2018:31-32; Albanians (Mukhurr village, Dibyr district, Peshkopi district, Albanian Central Geg dialect) [Some old women and old men underestimated winter, went from as a shepherd and with cattle to high mountain pasture. Old people were deceived by the "new green", the tall grass that appeared ten days before Spring Day. The old woman, coming to the top of the mountain on the first day, said: "I climbed to the top of the mountain and crossed the March border, myself, and I have shepherds and sheep." (Option, an old woman and an old man in the pasture mocked April; March, whose time (i.e. the last day) was over, asked April for two days to borrow: "Oh, April, my brother, give me two days to borrow, because I have a third day myself so that I can do what I know with the old woman!" April gave March two days; snow and northerly winds began, which lasted for three days and from which there was no place to hide. An old woman, an old man, a shepherd, a horse and dogs turned into white boulders that still remain in this place. In the village of Mukhurr, "old women" are called the three cold days of spring, the last day of March and the first two days of April. It is believed that bad weather is still the case these days]: Yully, Sobolev 2003:422 in Golan 2013, No. 1.6:234-235; Greeks (Imbros, Turkish. Gokceada) [the lonely old woman Drakena had countless herds of goats: she made so much cheese from goat's milk that when she put it on the shore to load it on the ship, she made a whole mountain; One day March turned out to be very cold, a lot of cattle on the island fell and only the old goats were not injured; boasting, she said to March: "March, you came and went, but you couldn't freeze my goats!" angry March took two days in February, cold and frost let in, and all the goats rested for the old woman; she managed to hide under the cauldron where she made cheese and cover a thousand frontal (buttery) and a thousand horned goats; only they were saved; February, since it lent March two days, was lame, and now it has 28 days; when the weather was good, the old woman, angry at what had happened, put on cheeses who remained on the shore for loading, one on top of the other, climbed upstairs and frightened God; God cursed her, turned her and the cheeses into stone; there was a rock of "old woman cheeses"; and for some time stood on The top is an old woman; and the old goats scattered and ran wild, so that all the wild goats that on Imbros and Samothrace are descended from that old woman's goats; Imbros and Samothrace were the same island at that time]: Book 1965:303 (translated by O.V. Czech) in Golan 2013:195.

Central Europe. Poles [February sold March two days and drank; Mart decided to pinch him more; invited him to Maslenitsa and bet that February would not be able to get to him; May advised February to take a sleigh, a cart and a boat - for any weather; February reached March and he had to pay; since then March freezes greens in May, then May sends warm nights in March; Var.: February did not give advice May, but an old man, so Mart tries to kill old people in March]: Shcherbakov 1980:212-213.

Caucasus - Asia Minor. Abkhazians [K. Machavarini. Essays on Abkhazia//Black Sea Bulletin (Batum) 1899, Nov. 12; it was a harsh winter. It's March. There was twice as much snow, but the shepherd cleaned the ground with a shovel from morning to evening and took out food for the sheep. It was the evening of the last day of March. The shepherd, confident that April would send warm days, threw his shovel and scolded March. Hearing these words, March ran to April and asked him for three more days. It snowed so much during these days that the shepherd did not know what to do at first. Then he put the cat in an empty wineskin and hung it on a beam across the attic. Hearing the cat floundering, the sheep looked there and were so busy tumbling the cat for three days that they never reminded the shepherd that they were hungry. Since then, they have been saying: "If it snows in early April, March is to blame, because since the shepherd chose him, he has always asked his younger brother April to borrow 3 or 4 days"]: Khvartsky 1994:172; Ossetians [the devil gave the poor goats for three years, divide the offspring in half; but the shepherd should not slaughter black, gray, hornless, long-horned, white, or variegated kid; shepherd in response: you will come to me neither on Sunday nor Monday (etc.); three years later, hell came on Wednesday night; they began to divide goats, they could not alone; she is a stranger; since then on this night in honor" strangers" slaughter the kid; the hell took the rest of the goats; during the rain, the poor man took off his clothes and sat on them; hell got wet, asks how the shepherd stayed dry; he promises to tell a secret in exchange for goats; gets goats and tells how he sat on his clothes; the shepherd's goats easily swam across the river, and the malik sheep are afraid to go into the water; he tells the shepherd to give four sheep for one goat; the shepherd became rich, stopped honoring God; on the last cold days of March, he started shouting to him: "Marti Burti, my whole herd is intact, my kid's ear is not lost!" March took three days to borrow from February, froze half of the herd; since then, the last days of March have been cold, and February is shorter than the other months; the witch Tarangel promised to destroy the shepherd's herd to the end; she brought a wolf on a rope, said that he was the patron saint of Falwar cattle; the shepherd gave 15 of the best sheep and goats for him; the wolf bit to death the whole herd; since then people have been praying to Falwar to save the cattle]: Byazirov 1972, No. 36:248-251; (cf. Tsudakharians (Dargin subgroup) [seven days before the beginning of the vernal equinox - "huhhula berme" ("grandmother's days"); were considered the coldest; these days were considered the coldest; these days were given by the grandmother to her wife, and the rest after On March 22, she gave warmer days to her granddaughter; these days were "Gyazhu Zhittinna Berme" ("days of {grandmother} Gyazhu Zhittinn")}: Seferbekov, Israpilova 2013:161-162); Georgians (Kartli) [the shepherd began to brag: March passed, but could not take a single lamb; March took April three days, caught up with a storm with a snowstorm; the herd could not be taken out of the pen; then the shepherd hung a bag with a cat on a pole; the cat scratched, all the sheep looked at they forgot to chew it; when Mart disappeared, the shepherd deceived him and bred the herd]: Virsaladze 1973, No. 180:242; Armenians [the days in late March and early April are called Parvi uler, "Old Woman's Goats"; one old woman decided that it was warm and, scolding the cold March, took the kids out of the barn; March asked April for three days to borrow, a blizzard rose, the old woman and the goats died; it is believed that until the end of March a snowstorm will rise, spring will not come]: Petrosyan 2011:74.