If there is a star before the moon, the weather will be calm; if the star is behind the moon, the weather will be stormy.
New Harbor, N. F.

If there is a star before the moon, the weather will be calm; if the star is behind the moon, the weather will be stormy.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1002.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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