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VoL. VI, PP. 35-62 APRIL 25, 1894 
THE 
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 
WEATHER MAKING, ANCIENT AND MODERN 
BY 
MARK W. HARRINGTON 
The subject of ancient and modern weather making is a very 
large one—too large to be treated with entire generality. I shall 
discuss it rather from the American standpoint, and shall use 
cases in the Old World simply for the purpose of illustration 
and for completeness. 
Three distinct sorts of weather-making have been employed. 
The first depends on superstitious and religious methods; then 
follows on this the degradation of these religious ideas into 
folk-lore remnants, which have a curious persistency in civilized 
countries. Both these are psychic. Opposed to them is the 
third method, mainly American and intensely practical. with 
which some history and literature are connected. 
I. Superstirious AND ReEuicious Meruops. 
RAIN MAKING AND STOPPING.* 
Many Indian tribes have attempted to produce rainy or dry 
weather, according to requirements. Among these may be men- 
tioned the Mandan, the Muskingum, the Moqui, the Natchez, 
* These cases of weather-making among the North American Indians 
were collected for me by Dr Fuller Walker, of the Weather Bureau, who 
searched through the literature available in Washington. 
6—Nar. Grog. Maa., vor. VI, 1894. (35) 
