Show IDEAS ABOUT THE rainia RAINBOW 0 W queer notions held by people of different countries regarding the dow bow in many countries the rainbow la Is spoken of as being a great bent pump or siphon tube drawing drawl ngi water from the earth by mechanical means in parts of russia in the don country countr y and also in moscow and vicinity it Is known by a name which Is equivalent to tile the bent water pipe in nearly all slavonic dialects it la Is known by terms signifying the cloud siphon and in fit hungary it la Is tho the pump noahs pump and gods goda pump the malayan alalayan natives call it by the same name that they do their banded water cobra only that they add boba meaning double headed the equivalent in our language being the double headed water snake they tell you that the bow Is a real thing of life that it with its two mouths and that the water Is transferred to the clouds through an opening in the upper side elde of the centra of the great arch in the province of charkav russia the rainbow Is said to drain the wells and to prevent this many are provided with heavy tight fitting stone platforms in the province of the bow Is said to be under the control of three angels one of whom pumps the water the second feeds the clouds and the thiril thin sends bends the rain many improbable and impossible things would happen if you could only get in reach of the bow the little turk Is told that if lie ha aou would have a silver head ad with gold teeth and ruby eyes he has but tu touch the orange stripe in greece they say that the person so ao unfortunate nat e as to stumble over the end of the bow will have his or her sex imma changed |