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   cawing noisily and the swallows sweeping low in under the trees and the little robin alighting on the threshold in search of crumbs and the blackbird hid among the hedgerows and none of them pouring forth their melody it is a sign of rain and heavy storm.
   "Puss on hearth, with velvet jaws sits wiping over her whiskered jaws". When the people see the cats sitting with their back to the fire they say its surely a sign of rain, and when they hear the little cricket signing it's a sign of good weather and when they fly about through the house it's a sign of bad weather.
   When the people are raking the fire and if they see blue blazes appearing among the burn'd coals its another sign of rain and when the wind puffs down the chimney and scatters the smoke through the kitchen it's another sign of rain. The soon[?] falls lavishly before the

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   1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Josephine Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tawnaleck, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mrs Francis Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   56

   Address

   Tawnaleck, Co. Leitrim