| Show Z the of superstitions I 1 IL KINQ KINC J SQUEALING PIGS WHEN pigs squeal or grunt more than usual it Is a eign sign of rainy weather some say simply of bad weather eather this la Is a superstition al at most universal in the rural districts it Is a question uli whether ether all the so called regarding the power of animals to foretell the weather really belong in the superstition category lord bacon believed lell bell eved that all out door animals wire weather wise at trl buting this to a susceptibility they acquired to atmospheric conditions by their const constant nut ekpo expo exposure ettre ittre to the elements the tile ancients attributed the v weather v antl at of birds and animals on the contrary to some mystic ity drawn from mythological sources the idea that squealing pigs predict net et weather has its itoi evident origin in the status of the pig wg in ancient egypt here it ins daiely connected with ith agriculture and was utis sacrificed to isis at the least of the new ew moon thi maon isis being the source of mole turc ture the egyptian farmer who iho heard the squeal squealing ln of the pigs being sacrificed upon the altar of isis knew that be canse of that sacrifice he lie need not tear fear a drought so the yankee fanner farmer of today when he liers hears the successors of those pigs of isle isla squeal knois that it ie Is going to rain min the persistence of hie the isis influence in modern superstition Is a remarkable fact in abis connection it Is interesting to note that among the papers of the unfortunate duke of 1100 mouth a contemporary of john locke and isaac newton nemon and born only twenty hire yeara years after the death of I 1 rencia bacon whose splendid genius wag aas illuminat ing the minds of men u was as found after his execution a prayer for fortitude in his affliction addressed to st M V by mcclure syndicate 0 |
