If stars are in thick patches before twelve at night, it is a sign that wind will come next day from that quarter.
Hearts Delight, Trinity Bay, N. F.

If stars are in thick patches before twelve at night, it is a sign that wind will come next day from that quarter.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1073.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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