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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends abundance, but the wild beasts will be destroyed; fish will increase and reptiles will invade settlements, but will not be harmful.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)