[35] The preceding fine October days, as well as the Dog-holidays
and April, and, in short, the rest of the previous part of the
year, were created on the above-mentioned 22d October, and the
said day itself also, after their time. I thus easily shift the
inquiry about all that earlier period. For if any one dates the
world differently, e. g. from the 20th March, as Lipsius and the
Fathers did, still he must fall in with my after-creation of the
forepart of the year, when I thrust home upon him with his own
previous question.
[36] It used to be believed that a ruby gave pleasant dreams.
[37] Arnold's Ecclesiastical History of Prussia, Vol. I.