Something different this week as we look into maritime folklore related to predicting (and maybe even altering) the weather.

**we get into the lore at about 11:20**

(for fans of the Loremen - yes, it's Christ-In-A-Hole!) 

Sources:

Beck, Horace. Folklore and the Sea. Mystic Seaport, 1996.

Hole, Christina. "Superstitions and Beliefs of the Sea." Folklore, vol. 78, no. 3, Autumn 1967, pp. 184 - 189.

Minard, Antone. "'Like a Dying Duck in a Thunderstorm':  Complex Weather Systems through the Lens of Folk Belief and Language." Western Folklore, vol. 69, no. 1, Winter 2010, pp. 109 - 119. 

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