Frogs and Weather
by Geethalakshmi[ Edit ] 2010-02-08 22:47:20
Frogs and Weather
Frogs have been associated with weather in a lot of ancient cultures. I guess this really makes a lot of sense if you consider that they tend to make a lot of noise before rain storms.
* Some Australian aborigines and Native American groups believed that frogs were the bringers of rain.
* In India, frogs were believed to personify thunder in the sky. Even the word for "frog" also meant "cloud" in Sanskrit!
* In China, they see the "TOAD", not the "man" of the moon. The toad is also considered "one of the five poisons of yin." They say that eclipses happen when the "toad in the moon" tries to swallow the moon itself!