Beyond the Breakers
Beyond The Breakers is a podcast about shipwrecks, loss, and lessons learned from maritime disasters.
Beyond the Breakers
Episode 130 - Please Stop Saying Weather Breeders
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Season 4
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Episode 8
Something different this week as we look into maritime folklore related to predicting (and maybe even altering) the weather.
**we get into the lore at about 11:20**
(for fans of the Loremen - yes, it's Christ-In-A-Hole!)
Sources:
Beck, Horace. Folklore and the Sea. Mystic Seaport, 1996.
Hole, Christina. "Superstitions and Beliefs of the Sea." Folklore, vol. 78, no. 3, Autumn 1967, pp. 184 - 189.
Minard, Antone. "'Like a Dying Duck in a Thunderstorm': Complex Weather Systems through the Lens of Folk Belief and Language." Western Folklore, vol. 69, no. 1, Winter 2010, pp. 109 - 119.
