The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-25
Peculiar Beliefs Which Have Pre-.
vailed IN Different Ages
and Countries.
INFLUENCE 0FsAsTRoLoGY.
nsnets Thought to Weld Peculiar Powers
- Universal Belief That the
Moon Affects Conditions

~ T-R1NG the past twenty years
IL M there have been published .
scDre OF collections OF weather
Ill IN proverbs and sayings most Of
lk/ which are out ~ prin; today
These have illuminated In IN
exhaustive treatise on weather lore by
the president Of the Royal MeteoroIoEic
Society 81 England, in the form Of a b5ok
containing a.9o proverbs. - far rs !
can determsns. Gays writer In the Jour
nal OF American Folklore. suthors have
We'd with each other In grinding out the
largest possible list o. weather sayings.
but no attempt has thus far been mads
70 tfsce this lore to its origin or TO give
II an approximate vafs". The Importance
~ such study may be easily seen when
We reflect that Of current weather iare
~ least half ~ entirely worthless and
half the remainder OF very doubtful serv-
Ice. For ten years have been preparing
material for book on this gtnsrai sub
tcet, and present herewith preliminary
study OF the questions invnlved-
Weather folklore IL bsscc on the
knowledge Of the common people ac-
CURED through the ordinary observations
Of nature. animals plants etc. una ded
~ fnstruments. This knowledge was the
flrst obtained by pfimeyai man. Before
tho study Of stars must be placed that
Of The weather and traces 81 such knowl-
ridge may he found. perhaps. In the Names
Of the signs Of the xodiss given at least
ann years before cur era.
Much Of sur pseudo weather lore may
be traced directly to the astrolegev and
his vagaries The moon changes almost
befdre our eyes. hcrce the weather
chAnees with the moon Mars is q red
planet and relatively near the sun, hence
- nve y red and hcf. Mnrr must he
heating and drying and productive -
nres. Saturn wss 20 the nstroIoger ths
Woti distant Of the planets from tho sun.
hence he influence was to produce cold
tye speak Of q saturnin~ iispositiouD In
1tee uaanner through the whole Gamut OF
ena01ine etars, ect3psen. comets. and 40
On 0hootinG stars must be supposed to
drive the wind before thrm. hence we
should aspect wind from the direction in
which they AFRO seen The moon di.ap-
pesrs from view three days before and
after II ID new. and these must BE- re-
gsrdrd ~ especially unincky days and
causina storms ara wind
A. ecltpee casts 4 shadow. ~ causes
1arkn0ee over tho earth. hence an sclipee
improved uprn the ordinary natroio9ic
view about ectipses. and has unwistinxly
introduced xome truth IN his tat rprcia-
ssen OF their influence. As foilowsi
Some eciipe<s Of the summaries nj the
lime. ~ even before they happen. raise
ohswefs and raIns others great aroash =,
Anne violent winds and others earth
auakea. acme = scarcity of fruits OF the
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