A handbook of weather folk-lore; being a collection of proverbial sayings in various languages relating to the weather, with explanatory and illustrative notes

Charles Swainson

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 12
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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A HANDBOOK
OF
WEATHER FOLK-LOREA HANDBOOK
OF
WEATHER FOLK-LORE
A COLLECTION OF PROVERBIAL SAYINGS IN VARIOUS
LANGUAGES RELATING TO THE WITHWEATHER,
EXPLANATORY AND ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES
BY THE
REV. C. M.A.SWAINSON,
VICAR OF HIGH HURST WOOD
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLXXIII
All reservedRightsQc
PREFACE.
IT is well known that certain have been,days
in as ominousvarious consideredcountries,
of the weather. The popularsayingsensuing
attached to them are of and
great antiquity,
therefore the of Calendar hasalteration the
affected them in a stillmaterial ; yetdegree
re-do the of the Continent consultpeasantry
*
their critical and if a Volks-ligiously ;days
kalender' of or Bo-Switzerland,Germany,
hemia were to discontinue its "Bauern-"giving
"
or there is no doubt that
Wetter-regelen,"
its diminished.circulation would be sensibly
in district hasour own eachSo, too, land,
its weather some to itself,proverbs, peculiar
it in with theshared commonsome, be,may
andfolk of France, Italy.country Germany,
It is to the side of weather loresuperstitious
that the reader is moredirected particularlyPREFACE.vi
work and itin the First Part of the ;present
hasbe remarked that attentionmay special
attached tobeen to the weatherpaid proverbs
the various Saints' thedays throughout year.
containsThe Second Part sayings relating
in-to the andmoon, stars,sun, atmospheric
alsofluences ; many prognosticsgenerally
in-drawn from the habits of animals, birds,
&c.sects,
of this kind wouldTo aHandbookcompile
ofhave been without the aidimpossible pre-
vious a list of which is givenpublications,
indebtedbelow. The author is particularly
'
to Notes and and Chambers,Queries,' Brand,
excellent book onalso to Professor Inwards'
this and to Mr Denham's curioussubject,
contain butcollection, which, however, very
few ofthe latter not,foreign proverbs. Many
in their behowever, original language may
found in Baron von
Reinsberg-Diiringsfeld's
'
Das Wetter im Sprichwort.'