Lucky Days & Fatal Days

Found in: Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World, originally published in 1903

 LUCKY DAYS

• January: 6 days
• 1, 2, 15, 26, 27 and 28.
• February: 4 days
• 11, 21, 25, and 26.
• March: 2 days
• 10 and 24.
• April: 5 days
• 6, 15, 16, 20 and 28.
• May: 3 days  
• 3, 18 and 31.
• June: 5 days 
• 10, 11, 15, 22 and 25.
• July: 3 days  
• 9, 15 and 28.
• August: 6 days  
• 6, 7, 10, 11, 19 and 25.
• September: 5 days 
• 4, 8, 17, 18 and 23.
• October: 5 days 
• 3, 7, 16, 21 and 22.
• November: 3 days  
• 5, 14 and 20.
• December: 6 days 
• 15, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 25

FATAL DAYS

• January
• Of this first month the opening day
• And seventh, like a sword will slay.
• February
• The fourth day bringeth down to death,
• The third will stop a strong man’s breath.
• March
• The first the greedy glutton slays,
• The fourth cuts short the drunkard’s days.
• April
• The tenth and the eleventh too,
• Are ready death’s fell ‘work to do.
• May
• The third to slay poor man hath power.
• The seventh destroyeth in an hour.
• June
• The tenth a pallid visage shows,
• No faith nor truth the fifteenth knows.
• July
• The thirteenth is a fatal day,
• The tenth alike will mortals slay.
• August
• The first kills strong ones at a blow.
• The second lays a cohort low.
• September
• The third day of the month September
• And tenth bring evil to each member.
• October
• The third and tenth with poisoned breath
• To men are foes as foul as death.
• November
• The fifth bears stings of deadly pain,
• The third is in destruction’s train.
• December
• The seventh is a fatal day for human life,
• The tenth is with a serpent’s venom rife.