They believed that if the animals saw their shadows, winter would continue, and so they went back to sleep.
If the animals saw their shadows, winter would go on for another six weeks, and they could go back to sleep, according to the tradition.
In honor of this quirky American tradition, CNN iReport is asking people to take a snapshot of their own shadows for a one-day photo challenge and share their own winter weather predictions.
In honor of this quirky American tradition, CNN iReport invited people to take a snapshot of their own shadows for a one-day photo challenge and then share their personal weather predictions.
Especially in small community banks where the regulators have them afraid of their own shadows.
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Mr Aznar's ministers are younger than their Socialist shadows, though they tend to be young fogeys in pin-striped suits with surnames from Franco's time.
The report calls for special advisers to become more involved in the work of their departments and to emerge from the shadows, with their names and roles published on departmental websites.
Instead, it has worn down the other team by making their players chase shadows before waiting for a mistake.
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Once-great software houses like Lotus, WordPerfect and Borland are mere shadows of their former selves.
The people's library, free clothes and gourmet soup kitchen were gone now, or reduced to shadows of their former selves.
Meanwhile, newspapers, magazines and books have faded to shadows of their former selves, as a post-literate generation finds its facts and fun elsewhere.
Some previously money-spinning activities are shadows of their former selves.
Ancelotti took positives from improved performances from senior players like Drogba, Michael Essien and Lampard, who have all been shadows of their former selves in recent weeks after battling back from injuries.
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Days that we have 60 or 70, we break it down where we have "hero" makeups, which are features, and "midground" makeups, which are paint jobs, where we paint highlights and shadows on their faces to make them look dead, but they're not intended to get too close to the camera.
With their irregular edges, overlapping shadows, and hand-crafted finish, shingles offer texture, charm, and a sense of history.
For example, the projector can display a 60-inch diagonal image when only 33-inches away, so presenters do not create distracting shadows while addressing their audience.
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Organizations like the Sierra Club use the tax loophole that allows these groups to exist in the shadows for some of their work.
Supporters say legal foreign workers contribute more to their host nation than those in the shadows.
The constants that physicists measure in their laboratories are only four-dimensional shadows of more fundamental entities that exist in 11 dimensions.
Yet the show does not peak until shadows fall and Gnawa musicians start playing their metal qarqaba (castanets), duff (hand drums) and twanging three-stringed ginbri (bass).
But the Obama team clearly thinks that overkill is a risk worth taking so long as they are driving their message home and keeping Mr McCain in the shadows.
The stories are so full of anguish and black comedy that they obliterate any distance between the interviewees and the audience, even when the subjects are shot in shadows or from odd angles to protect their identities.
They took the lead through an early Barkley penalty and their superb off-loading game soon had Saracens chasing shadows.
With so much at stake, the credibility of western governments, and especially America's, is likely to be one of their most important weapons against the fanatics lurking in the shadows.
Yet they live in the shadows of America, without the possibility to realize their dreams.
As for the home screen, apps will no longer have gloss, shadows and shine applied to the icons, but their corners will remain rounded.
And she was forced to stay in the shadows, but the couple did live together unofficially at their homes in southern France and Stockholm.
The bicheiros, as the numbers mafia was called, came out of the shadows once a year to sponsor Rio's carnival, laundering their profits and reputations.
Yet what most remains in the shadows today are the human dimensions to how Arabs and Muslims live their lives, the rhythms of their work and days, the varieties of their religious experiences, the obstacles they face, and the efforts they shoulder to overcome them.
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