Who sings at the last his own death-lay.
And in music and perfume dies away.
T. Moore, Lalla Rookh (“Paradise and the Peri,” 1817).
The phœnix has appeared five times in Egypt: (1) in the reign of Sesostris; (2) in the reign of Amăsis; (3) in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphos; (4) a little prior to the death of Tiberius; and (5) during the reign of Constantine. Tacitus mentions the first three (Annales, vi. 28).
Pig. In the fore feet of pigs is a very small hole, which may be seen when the pig is dead and the hair carefully removed. The legend is that the devils made their exit from the swine through the fore feet, and left these holes. There are also six very minute rings round each hole, and these are said to have been made by the devil’s claws.
When pigs carry straws in their mouth, rain is at hand.
When swine carry bottles of hay or straw to hide them, rain is at hand.--The Husbandman’s Practice, 137 (1664).
When young pigs are taken from the sow, they must be drawn away backwards, or the sow will be fallow.
The bacon of swine killed in a waning moon will waste much in the cooking.
When hogs run grunting home, a storm is impending.--The Cabinet of Nature, 262 (1637).