Among the signs that determined the nature of the peasant's activity, observations on the weather conditions and behavior of animals and birds were not the last place. For example, people often wondered why swallows fly low before the rain.
To understand this issue, you need to know the specifics of the life of this bird.
What are the swallows telling about?
Ornithologists know that swallows are those birds that usually fly low above the ground, and the sign has appeared as a result of observations of them. The swallow is one of those birds that almost never sits on the ground, and its flights usually perform low enough above the ground. It is established that even swallows swallow on the fly, capturing drops of moisture. When flying over a river or other body of water.
The most common way to see these blue-black birds can be sitting on wires when the sun shines brightly. And the more clear and dry the weather keeps on the street, the higher the swallows fly above the ground.
People's signs say that swallows fly low toward the rain. Signs have a very specific explanation: these birds are insectivorous, which means that their lives directly depend on the habitat of insects. As a rule, they are low in winding over water bodies, and hence swallows, in order to get their own food, follow their future food.
In sunny weather, the midwife rises high enough, so birds fly high in the sky. Overcast weather and a decrease in atmospheric pressure cause insects to sink lower and lower to water and land, which means that the swallows fly to the rain and are always faithful.
However, not only this sign is connected with them. These birds always live next door to a person and often involuntarily interfere in his life, which means that he will take a lot about them.
Other signs of swallows
- People's signs say that the swallow is nesting only near the house where good people live, in whose family peace reigns and peace.
- If the bird has made a nest, and then left it, it is considered an evil sign: the tenants of the house, where the swallow's nest has emptied, should be afraid of troubles and losses.
- It is believed that the swallow living near the house, protects the dwelling of a person from a fire. If there are thieves in the house, the punishment will come: the bird will take care of it.
- Signs say: if the swallow knocks on the glass with its beak, it heralds a meeting with a kind friend, from whom there has been no news for a long time.
- A remarkable feature was the appearance of birds during the wedding : they believed that if the swallows circled over the head of the newlyweds, then their life would be long and happy.
- And if the swallow decided to arrange a nest where an unmarried girl lives, you could expect matchmakers and an early marriage in the near future.
- People believed that the house would be prosperous if the first seen in the spring of a swallow to leave after a handful of earth, supposedly to build its nest.
- According to the behavior of these birds, it was determined whether the year would be productive: if the swallows were the first to fly from the south (they opened the spring), one could expect a good harvest this year.
- In the villages they respected these birds with great respect: even if someone accidentally killed a swallow, people feared that the birds would certainly avenge her death, and in the village the death of cattle would begin.
As you can see, the sign that swallows and swifts fly low over the ground - to the rain - is not the only one associated with these birds. People's wisdom noted and others, no less important and useful. Concluding the conversation about the swallows, let us recall another feature that claims that a pebble taken from a nest left by the swallows will become a wonderful amulet for its owner.