An evil wish is “The end of the seven Saturdays be upon you” (_Deire nan seachd Sathurn’ ort_), Macintosh’s _Prov._, p. 78; and in Cowal it is a vicious saying of one woman to another, “Worse than that will come upon you, the disease of the seven Saturdays will come upon you” (_Thig na ’s miosa na sin ort, thig galar nan seachd Sathurn’ ort_). The objection to removing on Saturday has been already mentioned under Monday.[78] The same objection is entertained in Ireland. The end of the week is very grateful to the labouring man. “Alas! and alas! is Monday, but my love is Saturday” (_och is och! Di-luain, ach ’s e mo luaidh Di-Sathuirne_). WEATHER WISDOM, ETC. Expressions denoting high wind are: “the blowing of hillocks out of their places” (_seideadh nan cnoc_), “a wind to take the tails off horses” (_Bheireadh i na h-earbuill bhar nan each_), and “blow the barn over the house” (_chuir an t-sabhuill thar an tighe_); heavy rain takes “pieces out of the ground” (_mìrean as an talamh_), and gives “milk to the whales” (_bainne do na muca mara_), it being supposed that in heavy rain whales lie on the surface to cool themselves; heavy snow “confines the infirm to their cots” (_chròdhadh e na giùigirean_), strong robust men can go about their business. A dead calm is called “the calm of birds” (_fia’ nan ian_); on days when not a hair is moved by the wind, and the sea is unruffled, the young fry of fish come to the surface, and sea-birds, themselves also conspicuous in such weather, can look about them for their prey.