How to tell fortunes : $b containing Napoleon's Oraculum and the key to work it; also tells fortunes by cards, lucky and unlucky days, signs and omens.Warford, Aaron A.
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How to tell fortunes : $b containing Napoleon's Oraculum and the key to work it; also tells fortunes by cards, lucky and unlucky days, signs and omens.
Warford, Aaron A.
Fortune-telling; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 -- Relations with fortune-tellers
56. If clouds float at different heights and rates, but generally in
opposite directions.
57. If there be many “falling stars” on a fine summer’s eve.
58. If there be sheet lightning, with a clear sky, on spring, summer,
and autumn evenings.
59. If the wind be hushed with sudden heat.
60. If clover contract its leaves.
61. If there be thunder in the evening, there will be much rain and
showery weather.
FOR THE APPROACH OF THUNDER.
62. If an east wind blow against a dark heavy sky from the westward,
the wind decreasing in force as the clouds approach.
63. If the clouds rise and twist in different directions.
64. If the birds be silent.
65. If cattle run round and collect together in the meadows.
FOR CONTINUED THUNDER SHOWERS.
66. If there be showery weather, with sunshine, and increase of heat
in the spring, a thunder storm may be expected every day, or at least
every other day.
ABATEMENT OF THUNDER STORMS.
67. If the air be very dry, with clear, yet cooler weather; or if one
or two following days the atmosphere be heavy, with a little damp
falling.
68. With a north wind it seldom thunders; but with a south and
south-west wind, often.
FOR COLDER WEATHER.
69. If the wind change to the north and north-east.
70. If the wind change, _in summer only_, to the north-west.
71. If the wind shift to the east _in summer only_.
72. If the wind shift from south to south-east _in winter_.
FOR INCREASE OF WARMTH OR HEAT.
73. If the wind shift round to the south and south-west.
74. If the wind change from east, north-east, or north, to north-west
and west, _in the winter_.
75. If the wind change to the east, _in summer only_; especially if
from north-east.
76. If the wind change to south-east, _especially in summer_.
FOR FROST.
77. If birds of passage arrive early from colder climates.
78. If the cold increase _whilst it snows_, as soon as it begins to
freeze.
79. If the wind blow north-east _in winter_.
80. If the ice crack much, expect the frost to continue.
81. If the mole dig his hole two feet and a half deep, _expect a very
severe winter_. If two feet deep, not so severe; one foot deep, a mild
winter.
82. If water-fowl or sparrows make more noise than usual; also if
robins approach nearer houses than usual; _frost_.
83. If there be a dark, gray sky, with a south wind.
84. If there be continued fogs.
85. If the fire burn unusually fierce and bright in winter there will
be frost and clear weather; if the fire burn dull, expect damp and rain.
FOR THAW.
86. If snow fall in flakes, which increase in size.
87. If the heat increase in the afternoon, or suddenly before twelve
o’clock.
88. If clouds drive up high from the south, south-west, or west.
89. If it freeze, and the barometer fall 20 or 30 hundredths.
HYMEN’S LOTTERY.
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