Sirius Black, in Harry Potter, is thought to have been named after the white dwarf, Sirius B. The relationship is further extended by the fact the character Sirius Black was an animagus that could change into a dog. The dog days are mentioned in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (passage...
One unusually-intelligent hunter particularly attuned to both star constellations and the annual migration patterns of wildebeest1 herds could share a system he devised that used the night sky to determine exactly how many days remained until the herd would return. Even though very few hunters would...