Fatal Days

Here’s a listing of the “Fatal Days” of the year –
if today is one of those days, maybe you should just stay in bed!

• 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.

Found in:
Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences