Against the rose of the dawn appeared a dark line which increased as the magicians and chiefs moaned and groaned in sympathy with the furious efforts of the rainmaker, who threatened and pulled with the magic crook, so that everybody could see that he was indeed dragging the reluctant clouds from over the end of the earth.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
The Counsellor and Cloud-compeller of classical Athens was the wizard and rainmaker of earlier times; and the All-Father surprises us in Thera and Crete by appearing both as a babe and as a Kouros in spring dances and initiation rituals.
"Five Stages of Greek Religion"
Gilbert Murray
Labiskwee, the daughter of Snass, the rainmaker, the Great Chief, lights her first maiden's fire to-night.
"Smoke Bellew"
Jack London