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" Cloddipole we learnt to read the skies, To know when hail will fall, or winds arise. He taught us erst the heifer's tail to view, When... "
The Folk Lore and Provincial Names of British Birds - Strana 49
autor/autoři: Charles Swainson - 1886 - 243 str.
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Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland: A Folklore Sketch; a ..., Svazek 2

William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 466 str.
...foretell approaching rain ; if they fly high, they announce continued fine weather. Thus Gay says :— " When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." regularly and pecked at the window pane, and even after his death, the bird still returned each morning...
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Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland: A Folklore Sketch; a ..., Svazek 2

William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 490 str.
...foretell approaching rain ; if they fly high, they announce continued fine weather. Thus Gay says : — " When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." A water-wagtail near the house heralds bad news. Whilst a man was lying ill with a virulent fever,...
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Weather Folk-lore and Local Weather Signs ...

Edward Bennett Garriott - 1903 - 208 str.
...weather. When swallows in evenings fly high and chirp, fair weather follows; when low, rain follows. When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. -Gay. Cranes soaring aloft and quietly in the air foreshows fair weather, but if they make much noise,...
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A Dictionary of English and Folk-names of British Birds: With Their History ...

Harry Kirke Swann - 1913 - 450 str.
...the contrary a high flight signified fine weather. Thus Gay in his first " Pastoral " writes : — When Swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. It is related in " Notes and Queries " that a Swallow alighting upon one's shoulder has been regarded...
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Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, Svazek 4874,Vydání 8569

Wayland D. Hand - 1964 - 726 str.
...follows) ; Garriott, 19 (when swallows in evenings fly high and chirp, fair weather follows) ; also (When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, / He told us that the welkin would be clear) — New England: Johnson, What They Say, 25 (when in the evening you see the swallows flying high,...
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Weather Folk-Lore and Local Weather Signs

Edward B. Garriot - 2001 - 180 str.
...indicates rain When swallows in evenings fly high and chirp, fair weather follows; when low, rain follows When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would he clear. — Gaij. Cranes soaring aloft and quietly in the air foreshows fair weather, but if they...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: Volume I

Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 596 str.
...straight ensue. He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretell the gathering rain ; When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Gay, Pastoral, i. (1714). (Cloddipole is the " Patemon " of Virgil's Ed iii.). Clo'dio (Count), governor....
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A Handbook of Weather Folk-lore: Being a Collection of Proverbial Sayings in ...

Charles Swainson - 1873 - 322 str.
...Wassers hinfahren, so hat man Regen oder Gewitter zu erwarten. So Gay, in his first Pastoral, writes, " When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." Swans, In Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, x. 14, parish of Wick, со. Caithness,...
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Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, Svazek 7

1899 - 206 str.
...low it presages rain. (Brittany.) 594. When swallows fly high it will be fine weather. (Brittany.) " When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." — Gay, Shepherd's Week. 611. According as the goose-bone is white or red, the winter will be cold...
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