Current Superstitions Part 34

926. Rub saliva on the wart, tie a string around the hand so that the knot comes on the wart. Take off the string and hide in a hollow stump.

_Southern Indiana._

927. Kill a toad, and put its blood on the wart. The warts will go away in three weeks.

_Marquette, Mich._

928. Warts are cured by tying a knot in a string for every wart, and putting under the eaves of the house. The warts go as the string rots.

_Ohio._

929. Warts may be cured by applying to them water standing in the hollow of an oaken stump.

_Boxford, Ma.s.s., and Ohio._

CHAPTER XIV.

WEATHER

COLD.

930. As the days begin to lengthen, So the cold begins to strengthen.

_Northeastern United States and Canada._

931. Fire spitting sparks means cold weather.

_Patten, Me._

932. If the fire burns well, it is coming cold weather.

_General in the United States._

933. Fog in winter is always succeeded by cold and wind.

934. Plenty of hawberries foretell a "hard winter," _i.e._, they are to serve as a store of food for birds.

_Canada._

935. Cold weather comes after the wind has blown over the oat stubble.

_Pennsylvania._

DAYS AND TIMES.

936. The first Tuesday after the new moon settles the weather for that quarter.

_Newfoundland._

937. If it is a fair sunset Friday night, it will rain before Monday.

_Ma.s.sachusetts._

938. If it storms on a Friday, it will storm again before the next Monday.

_Ma.s.sachusetts and New York._

939. If the sun sets clear Friday night, it will not rain before Monday night; but if it sets in a cloud, it will rain before Monday night.

_Boston, Ma.s.s._

940. The weather of the last Friday in the month governs the next month.

_Cambridge, Ma.s.s._

941. There will be sun during some part of Sat.u.r.day the year through.

_Brookline, Ma.s.s._

942. If it rains the last Sat.u.r.day or the first Sunday in a month, it will rain the three following Sundays.

_Maine._

943. The sun s.h.i.+nes some part of every Sat.u.r.day in the year but one.

_New England._

944. Sat.u.r.day's moon comes seven years too soon, and denotes bad weather.

_Newfoundland._

945. Sunday's sail Will never fail.

_Topsail Bay, N.F._

946. Weather is apt to repeat itself in the following week, _i.e._, there will be a run of wet Sundays or fine Tuesdays, etc.

_Brookline, Ma.s.s._

947. The first seven days of January indicate the first seven months of the year. Mild days, mild months, etc.

_Nova Scotia._

948. If March comes in like a lamb, it goes out like a lion, and _vice versa_.

_General in the United States._

949. The corn is planted when the Baltimore orioles appear, or when the first green is noticed on the oak-trees.

_Milton, Ma.s.s._

950. A dry May and a wet June Make the farmer whistle a merry tune.

_Franklin Centre, R.I._

951. It rains often on July fourth. That is due to the firing of cannon, etc.

_General in the United States._

952. If there is a wet September, there will be a next summer's drouth; no crops and famine.

_California._

953. If it rains on Easter, it will rain seven Sundays thereafter.

_Hennepin, Ill._

954. A green Christmas makes a full churchyard, or A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard.

_General in the United States._

955. The twelve days at Christmas govern the weather of the months of the coming year.