Ozark Magic and Folklore

The horse or cattle saw the white fluffy popcorn piling up on the ground and mistook it for a massive blizzard and promptly froze to death from sheer imagination.

don't know if that's randolph he has a version of that there are 100 versions of that one by carl sandberg which that one may be by carl sandberg but randolph starts to he starts noting the various rituals about these droughts and we're going to go into that um one of the Of course, you know, one of my favorite books is Ozark Magic and Folklore, previously called Ozark Superstitions.

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The first of the chapter, he quotes an old hillman who says, them government weathermen do pretty well on a flat prairie like Kansas or western Oklahoma, an old man told me, but they ain't worth a damn in hilly country.