{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe211.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe211.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe211.htm","text":"PILCHARDS CRYING FOR MORE\nWHEN there is a large catch of fish (pilchards), they are preserved,--put in bulk, as the phrase is,--by being rubbed with salt, and placed in regular order, one on the other, head and tails alternately, forming regular walls of fish.\nThe fish often, when so placed, make a squeaking noise; this is called \"crying for more,\" and is regarded as a most favourable sign. More fish may soon be expected to be brought to the same cellar.\nThe noise which is heard is really produced by the bursting of the air-bladders; and when many break together, which, when hundreds of thousands are piled in a mass, is not unusual, the sound is a loud one.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Romances of Fishermen and Sailors: Pilchards Crying for More","type":"page"}