Some Thoughts on Weather Lore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8934403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M G Wurtele (National Institute of Meteorology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 292-303 |
| Publication date | 1971-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1971.9716742 |
| OpenAlex | W2155978227 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
1 DO NOT presume to scholarship in the field of folklore, and the sources for this paper are all secondary. However, I do think that a knowledge of the subject of the lore gives one a certain vantage point for discussing the lore, and I shall try to exploit this advantage. There has been some heavy-handed meteorological research on this sort of material. For example, Basu (1953) reports the results of an appointed committee of the Indian Meteorological Society to evaluate Indian weather lore. The committee gathered some 5000 items and proceeded to evaluate about io per cent of them scientifically. For example, the first 'aphorism' they scrutinize is
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |