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 shines 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.