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dc.contributor.authorRyan, John Sen
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-17T11:21:00Z-
dc.date.issued1997-
dc.identifier.citationLore and Language, 15(1-2), p. 204-205en
dc.identifier.issn0307-7144en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11465-
dc.description.abstractThis fine and even sumptuous compilation of more than 4,400 largely proverbial weather sayings, mainly drawn from American and British sources and archival collections, is particularly a reflection of the habit of compiling such material in the latter parts of both the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. The senior author - who died in 1994 before the book's publication - and his colleagues, had already issued 'A Dictionary of American Proverbs' (1992) and 'A Dictionary of Wellerisms' (1994). The third author was also responsible in 1990 for 'International Proverb Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography', Supplement 1 (1800-1981) issued by Garland. Their Preface now categorises these weather dicta as usually expressing either "folk wisdom in a metaphorical fashion" or "superstitions without any rational or scientific basis" (p. vii), and also stresses their folk transmission, over a considerable period of time, "the collective wisdom of generations of people who have depended on knowing at least to some degree of certainty what the weather might bring" (p. ix).en
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dc.publisherUniversity of Sheffield, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT)en
dc.relation.ispartofLore and Languageen
dc.titleReview of Kingsbury, S. A., Kingsbury, M. E., and Mieder, W., 'Weather Wisdom: Proverbs, Superstitions and Signs', New York, Peter Lang, 1996, viii, 478pp., £33.00.en
dc.typeReviewen
dc.subject.keywordsHistorical Studiesen
dc.subject.keywordsCultural Studiesen
dc.subject.keywordsPhilosophy and Religious Studiesen
local.contributor.firstnameJohn Sen
local.subject.for2008200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.for2008210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.for2008229999 Philosophy and Religious Studies not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2008950304 Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritageen
local.subject.seo2008970116 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen
local.subject.seo2008950599 Understanding Past Societies not elsewhere classifieden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailjryan@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
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local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage204en
local.format.endpage205en
local.identifier.volume15en
local.identifier.issue1-2en
local.title.subtitleProverbs, Superstitions and Signs', New York, Peter Lang, 1996, viii, 478pp., £33.00.en
local.contributor.lastnameRyanen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:jryanen
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local.title.maintitleReview of Kingsbury, S. A., Kingsbury, M. E., and Mieder, W., 'Weather Wisdomen
local.output.categorydescriptionD3 Review of Single Worken
local.search.authorRyan, John Sen
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local.year.published1997en
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