hail cloud

At the sight of hail clouds, he would mount his mare and disappear for several days.

It was thought that his soul then flew skywards to fight against some black bird which led the storm and hail clouds.

When an ala threatens by bringing hail clouds, a dragon comes out to fight with her and drive her away.

Seeing hail clouds, people in Tamnava would shout, "Keep your cattle out of our crops!"

Dragon or serpent like demon connected with the wind, and thunderstorm and hail clouds.

A zduhać could take the storms and hail clouds over the territory of another zduhać to destroy its crops.

Asked where they had been to, they would only answer that they had gone to fight against those who led the hail clouds toward their village.

Trivun explained that hail clouds were led by devils accompanied by souls of the drowned and hanged.

In folk spells for repelling hail clouds in Serbia, these clouds were called white cattle.

In Bulgarian tradition, thunderstorms and hail clouds were interpreted as a battle between the good dragon or eagle and the evil ala.

The dragon man fought against female demons called ala, which led hail clouds over fields to destroy crops, and consumed the fertility of the fields.

Eagles are also regarded as defenders against ale, chasing them away from fields and thus preventing them from bringing hail clouds overhead.

In the region of Boljevac, the epileptics were said to be alovit-their souls went out of their bodies during epileptic fits and led hail clouds.

Yadachy of an area usually fought together against the attacking Yadachy of another area who were bringing a storm and hail clouds above their fields.

His arch-enemy was a female demon named ala (plural: ale), whose main activity was to lead storm and hail clouds over fields to destroy crops.

A role of zduhaći, according to folk tradition, was to lead storms and hail clouds away from their family estates, villages, or regions, to save their crops.

These texts often contained the idea of hail clouds as cattle, usually white: "O Sava and Nevena, turn back those white cattle!"

One of the spells that was used upon sighting hail clouds, and which explicitly mentioned an ala, was shouted in the direction of the clouds:

At the sight of hail clouds, the alovit man would fall into a trance-like sleep, before his soul issued from his body and flew up to the clouds.

In a more Christianized version, St. Elijah shoots lightning at the devils who lead the hail clouds; the devils in this case are obviously ale.

But if the earth revolved, and the hail clouds were carried by the wind in its course, hail would necessarily fall over at least three or four hundred miles of countryside.

In the region of Užice, western Serbia, it was believed that storms and hail clouds were led by zduhaći who flew above them in the form of big birds.

The gradobranitelj used magic to dissipate hail clouds, and to repel devils and the souls of the drowned and hanged persons, who were thought to bring the clouds.

Such spirits were seen in Serbia as bringers of hail clouds; they were addressed in folk spells, with which they were made to lead the clouds away from the village.

Noticing the approach of a hail cloud, farmers would stand in their house yard and wave toward it with one of those implements, or place it with the blade turned toward the cloud.