Where does the saying the devil is beating his wife come from?
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What state in Germany does the saying the devil is beating his wife come from?
Bavaria
Hungary ( ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning in the Carpathian Basin, it borders Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and Slovenia to the southwest, and Austria to the west. With about 10 million inhabitants, Hungary is a medium-sized member state of the European Union. The official language is Hungarian, which is the most widely spoken Uralic language in the world, and among the few non-Indo-European languages to be widely spoken in Europe. Hungary's capital and largest city is Budapest; other major urban areas include Debrecen, Szeged, Miskolc, Pécs and Győr.
What country to the southeast of Germany does the saying the devil is beating his wife come from?
Austria
Hungary
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Where in Lower Saxony does the saying the devil is beating his wife come from?
Lunenburg
Austria (, ; ), officially the Republic of Austria (, ), is a land-locked East Alpine country in the south part of Central Europe. It is composed of nine federated states ("Bundeslände"r), one of which is Vienna, Austria's capital and its largest city. It is bordered by Germany to the northwest, the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia to the northeast, Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. Austria occupies an area of and has a population of nearly 9 million people. While German is the country's official language, many Austrians communicate informally in a variety of Bavarian dialects.
What country to the east of Austria does the saying the devil is beating his wife come from?
Hungary
Austria
In the Southern United States, a sunshower is traditionally believed to be when "the devil is beating his wife." A regional belief from Tennessee is "the devil is kissing his wife".
Where in the United States does the saying the devil is beating his wife come from?
Southern United States the Southern United States
Sunshower
Austria
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Hungary
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Sunshower
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A sunshower or sun shower is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining.[1] A sunshower is usually the result of accompanying winds associated with a rain storm sometimes miles away, blowing the airborne raindrops into an area where there are no clouds, therefore causing a sunshower
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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 clever animals and tricksters getting married or related to the devil, although many variations of this theme are in existence
Sunshower Devils
A wide range of expressions are attested in the German-speaking countries, many of them historically
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Often, the phenomenon is interpreted as a struggle between rain and sunshine. "The devil is beating his wife/grandmother/mother-in-law" (Bavaria, Austria, Lunenburg),
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In Hungary, it is known as "veri az ördög a feleségét" which translates to "the devil is beating his wife".
Sunshower Devils
The saying the devil is beating his wife comes from the phenomenon of a sunshower. A sunshower is a meteorological phenomenon in which rain falls while the sun is shining. Often, this is interpreted as a struggle between rain and sunshine. This phenomenon has a wide range of sometimes remarkably similar folkloric names in cultures around the world. A common theme is that of clever animals and tricksters getting married or related to the devil, although many variations of this theme are in existence. In the Southern United States, a sunshower is traditionally believed to be when the devil is beating his wife. In Hungary the phenomenon is known as veri az ördög a feleségét which translates to the devil is beating his wife.  Additionally, a wide range of expressions are attested to the sunshower phenomenon in the German-speaking countries, many of them historically.  In Bavaria, Austria and Lunenburg, the phrase the devil is beating his wife/grandmother/mother-in-law is also associated with the phenomenon of a sunshower. 