• Some Australian Aborigines and Native American groups believed that frogs are the bringers of rain.

  
  

  
  

• In India, frogs were believed to personify thunder in the sky. Even the word for "frog" also meant "cloud" in Sanskrit.

  
  

  
  

• In China, they see the "toad", not the "man" in the moon. The toad is also considered 'one one of the five poisons of yin.' They say that eclipses happen when the "toad in the moon" tries to swallow the moon itself!

  
  

  
  

• In Japan, frogs are symbols of Good Luck. One myth deals with the idea that bullfrogs are descended from a great ancestor who could suck all the mosquitoes out of a whole room in a single breath.

  
  

  
  

• Some have said that "If the first frog that you see in the spring is sitting on dry ground, it signifies that during the same year you will shed as many tears as it would require for the frog to swim away." If on the other hand, the first frog of spring jumps into water, you'll experience misfortune all year! However, if the springs first 'hoptoad' came jumping in your direction, you will have many friends; if it jumps away, you will lose some.

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