Note 35 — Front matter (continued 5)

The sheet-lightnings which play during the nights of July and August are termed in creole Zéclai-tiriri, or "titiri-lightnings";—it is believed these give notice that the titiri have begun to swarm in the rivers. Among the colored population there exists an idea of some queer relation between the lightning and the birth of the little fish;—it is commonly said, "Zéclai-à ka fai yo écloré" (the lightning hatches them).