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Studies in Classical Weather Folklore

This is a collection of fifteen articles by Eugene S. McCartney, dealing with ancient ideas about weather and other topics. The articles were serialized in a variety of journals such as Classical Weekly , Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , American Journal of Philology , and Classical Journal , during the years 1918-1934. Contents: Some Folk-Lore of Ancient Physiology and Psychology; Spontaneous Generation and Kindred Notions in Antiquity; An Animal Weather Bureau; Sex Determination and Sex Control in Antiquity; The Folk Calendar of Times and Seasons; The "Wooden Horse" and Folk-Lore of Touching; Magic and the Weather in Classical Antiquity; The Classical Astral Weather Chart for Rustics and for Seamen; Popular Methods of Measuring; Greek and Roman Weather Lore of the Sun and the Moon; Clouds, Rainbows, Weather Galls, Comets, and Earthquakes as Weather Prophets in Greek and Latin Writers; Greek and Roman Weather Lore of Winds; Classical Weather Lore of Thunder and Lightning; Greek and Roman Weather Lore of the Sea; and Greek and Roman Weather Lore of Two Destructive Agents, Hail and Drought. Compiled and bookmarked in 277 searchable pdf pages by

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