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Superstition #961

Women “cruising,” i. e., visiting about on “pot-days,” especially Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, when people have their best dinner (usually pork and cabbage) in the pot, is a sign of bad weather. But it is also said that it is a sign of mild weather.

Newfoundland and Labrador.

Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 961.

Fanny D. Bergen, editor.

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