What are the borrowed days and what is their story

Written By رنا السيلاوي on 2021/02/25

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><strong>The ritual of Arabia</strong> - people may tend to a popular interpretation if it is difficult for them to find a scientific explanation for some astronomical and climatic phenomena, which is an explanation closer to fantasy stories and myths, but it is based on observation and accumulated experience, and these popular stories are usually inherited, especially in Bedouin and rural environments, and examples It has the story of the extrapolated days, <strong>so what is the popular story associated with it? What is its relationship to the weather?</strong></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <strong>What are the borrowing days?</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The extrapolated days are seven days; Four days of February and three of March, which is a period related to the well-known period of Saudization (Saad Al-Saud), which are days associated with special weather conditions that are repeated in the region every year.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> <strong>Folk story associated with the days of extrapolators</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The popular legend says that a person turned the months of February and March into people who exchange dialogue, as February in his last days asks his &quot;cousin&quot; March to <strong>support him for three days to end a whole week of severe cold and rainy winter that may raise the water level in rivers and torrents</strong> , and tells him “March, my cousin, bring the three of you on my fortieth, and let the old man in the valley knock,” and knock in the sense of flowing into the river.<br /></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> And the old woman, according to the legend, angered February when she told her sheep that <strong>there was no more rain and torrential rain in February</strong> , as she said to her sheep: <strong>“February missed the breadwinner, and he took neither an ewe nor a leash from me, and we hit him on the back with dirt.” So</strong> February felt humiliated and that the old woman who lived near One of the torrents, underestimating it, as the novel claims.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> This prompted him to increase the severity of the rain and the bitter cold, and to ask March to help him for another three days, to increase the burden of winter and cold on the old woman and her sheep, so the old woman and her sheep drowned in the river due to the bad weather at this time <span>.</span></p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></h3><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> <strong>The connection of the story of the days with the weather</strong></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Man created the legendary story of the extraterrestrial days in order to document this exceptional weather condition that occurs annually at about the same time, and the story became inherited to alert people that every year of this time the weather condition is characterized by heavy precipitation and extreme cold.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> It should be noted that these narratives may not exist in other civilizations or other popular cultures in the world, <strong>but those events stuck in the human mind and are still present in our heritage until now because these things happen every year</strong> , so they remained inherited that chronicle the events of time, and a popular example. It is mentioned every time these rains and torrents occur.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><br /> Many of the events and weather conditions in the region have been associated with stories and novels in the popular heritage, such as: Shams Al-Lawz, Al-Saud, the winter of April, and the Arbaeen Winter. Popularity, because every story is important because it relates to and documents an event.</p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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