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School: Levitstown, Mageney

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Levitstown, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Elizabeth Hearne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0781, Page 320

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  1. Local Weather Beliefs

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    The following are some signs of bad weather.
    (a) The peacocks cry.
    (b) The distant hills looking nigh
    (c) The spiders from their cobwebs creep.
    (d) When the soot falls dwon the chimney.
    (e) A circle around the moon.
    (f) The cat lying with her back to the fire
    (g) A dullness in the air.
    (h) If the suns rays appear like moses horns.
    (i) Seagulls flying, flying in from the coast.
    (j) A flock of wild geese flying towards the North.
    (k) The smoke blowing to the ground.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Kenna
    Gender
    Female