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Superstitions About The Weather

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Parent Issue
Day
27
Month
May
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Popular snperstititions about the weather linger long, and in spite of the teachings of science people persist in believing that seaweed hung up in a backyard will become damp at the approach of rain, or that a similar indication is to be f ound in the f act that a pig is seen ehewing straw. Mr. Richard Inwards, the president of the Meteorological society, it is needless to say, has no belief whatever in such methods of prophesying the weather. What belief conld be more flrmly rooted in many people than the belief that if it rains on St. Swithia's day it will rain for 40 days? "Aa nnadulterated fallacy," snch is what Mr. Inwards calla it, yet in spite of the evidence accumnlated npon the subject by the Meteorological office, people go on putting faith in it as though there were nosuch thingasexperience. Then, again, it is eaid that a full moon will olear away clouds, and that a change of moon on a Saturday or a Sunday is an indication of floods, although not a little evidence in favor of either belief has ever been adduced.

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Ann Arbor Courier