Part 34 (1/2)

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.