School: Dubhais (roll number 16323)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 327

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    23. During a thunder storm if the peals tend to travel from east to west if in the south or from the west to east if in the northern portion of the heavens (in other words if the thunder follows the sun) no great damage will be done.
    24. If the weather breaks with thunder it will continue unsettled till thunder comes again.
    25. If a bride has thunder on her wedding day she will have no luck in her married life.
    26. Lucky (happy) the bride that the sun shines on
    Happy the corpse tha the rain falls on.
    On whit Monday it is very wrong
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