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Why do many countries associate an animal's wedding with a sunshower?

Where did this all start? Surely there has to be some common folklore that started it all.

Examples:

In Hindi, it is also called "the foxes wedding".

In Konkani, it is called "a monkey's wedding".

In Sinhala, it is called "the foxes wedding".

In Bengali, it is called "a devil's wedding".

In Brazil, people say "Rain and sun (chuva e sol), Snail's (caracol) wedding" OR "Sun and rain (sol e chuva), Widow's (viúva) marriage".

In Arabic, the term is "the rats are getting married".

In Korea, a male tiger gets married to a fox.

In various African languages, leopards are getting married.

In Kenya, hyenas are getting married.

Update:

@Clive, thanks but I would like to know where or how the wedding folklore fits into it and why so many countries have similarities.

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  • 10 years ago
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    My mother. who lived in Michigan, USA, always said "The devil is beating his wife." Her grandparents came from Austria/Poland.Who knows how these things start ?

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    A sunshower or sun shower is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining.[1] These conditions often lead to the appearance of a rainbow, if the sun is at a low enough angle.[1] Although used in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and parts of Britain, the term "sunshower" is rarely found in dictionaries.[2] Additionally, the phenomenon has a wide range of sometimes remarkably similar folkloric names in cultures around the world.[3] A common theme is that of trickster animals, or the devil, getting married, although many variations of parts of this theme exist.

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    4 years ago

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