Note 321 — Chapter I
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The sight of a rainbow is sometimes regarded as a bad omen. Some believe that it shortens a man’s life and brings misfortunes to him.310 Others believe that it is calamitous to a man’s relations by marriage, especially to the mother-in-law, who is sure to lose her power of hearing.321 People sometimes clash earthen vessels against one another to avert the evils which are to be feared from a rainbow.322 It is also said that the sight of the whole of the rainbow is a good omen: but the sight of a part, however large, is inauspicious.323