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   Local beliefs in regard to the weather are as follows. If St. Swithin's day is wet the forty days after it will be wet and if St. Swithin's day is fine the forty days after it will be fine. For the sign of rain soot falls down the chimneys, black clouds are seen in the sky, the crows flying low, and the curlews scheeching, birds fly very low, and if the sun goes down yellow the next day will be wet.
   Spiders from their cobwebs creep
   Last night the sun went pale to bed
   The moon in halo hid her head
   The boding shepherd hears a sigh
   To see a rainbow span the sky
   The walls are damp, the ditches smell
   Close to the pinkeyed pimpernell
   Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry
   The distant hills are looking nigh
   How restless are the snorting swine
   The busy flies flies disturb the kine
   Puss on the hearth with velvet paws
   Sits wiping oer his whisker jaws
   Lo' on the grass the swallow wings
   The cricket too how sharp he sings.
   The south west wind brings most rain to my district.

   

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      1. weather-lore (~6,442)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Creedon

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dromatimore, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mrs D. Creedon

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dromatimore, Co. Cork