The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-10-20
IF you SEE 1T IN THE MOON,
No Matter What 1t Is, You VIII Have
Some Sort of Luck.

No Matter What 1t Is, You Will Have
Some Sort of Luck.
"If you see the new moon over
your right shoulder, it's good luck
all the MONTH" over the left shoul-
der being bad luck, Of course. IF
you meet the new moon face to face
with money in your pocket, you
will have that kind Of money in
your pocket for a month, and so
on, this last being taken from an
old black letter treatise on things
worth knowing" Everywhere in
tho world the idea prevails among
those who lack scientific training
that anything falling to the lot of
man when the moon is waxing will
likewise increase, similarly decreas-
ing while the moon wanes. The
Hindoo troubled with warts looks
at the new moon, picks up a pinch
of dust from beneath his left foot,
rubs the wart with it, and, when
the moon goes, SO does the wart. If
you fall i'll, you can be cured by
herbs gathered in the full of the
moon.
The Moslems in the kingdom of
Oudh cure insomnia, palpitation Of
the heart, nervous prostration and
similar evils by stationing the suf-
ferer with basin of water in his
hands in the light Of the full moon
in such a way that its refulgent
image shines directly from the liq-
uid into his eyes. Then, without
moving his gaze, he is required to
swallow the water at draft.
In northern India the people lay
out food in the full moon that comes
in the months corresponding to our
September and October, half Of
each, and give it to their friends as
a means of insuring longevity.
That same night the girls pour wa
ter in the moonlight, saying they
are getting rid of the cold weather.
It was long ago noted that the
Yorkshire maids "do worship the
new moon on their bare knees,
kneeling upon an earth fast stone,"
and Lady Wilde says that the Irish
damse1s drop on their knees when
they first catch sight Of the new
moon and say, "Oh, moon, leave us
as well as you found usl" In India
the natives take seven threads from
the end Of their turbans and give
them to the new moon, with a
prayer.
The spots on the moon are caused
by many persons or things. Some
times it is a man with fagot on
his back, sent thither for picking up
sticks on the Sabbath. Chaucer calls
him thief and puts thorn bush on
his shoulders. Dante says it is no
less criminal than Cain. Shakes
peare provides a dog to keep him
company. Hindoos keep not a
man, but a hare, in the moon, and
the well known connection in the
minds Of the man Of the moon and
insanity may account for the state
ment regarding the March hare, and
possibly the thorn bush may be the
distinctive covering Of the halter.
At any rate, this is as good guessing
as a lot of the sun myth people have
done, while Barring Gould Identifies
the moon children, Bill and Hiuki
of the northern mythology, with
Jack and Gill Of the nursury rhyme.
The Greenland Eskimo believes
that the sun and moon were orig
inally brother and sister. She, be-
ing teased by him past ordinary en-
durance, seized some lampblack and
rubbed it on his face. Then she
ran, her brother after. Finally she
went so fast she rose up into the air
and became the sun, while her sooty
faced brother turned into the moon.
In Samoa when a great famine op-
pressed the people the moon rose
one night, big and round, like a
bread fruit. A patient mother, un-
able to quiet the pangs Of her little
one, looked up and said, "Why
don't you come down and let my
baby have a bite of youf" This
made the moon so angry that she
simply picked up both mother and
child, and they have been there ever
since.
All sailors are certain that sleep
ing in tropical moon rays will either
make them cross eyed or blind. On
the American vessel Ell Captain a
year or two ago a number Of the
crew, disregarding the advice of
their fellows during spell Of hot
weather, slept on the deck in the
moonlight, and soon after went COM
pletely blind at night, though they
could see as we'll in the daytime as
ever. The skipper of the ship re-
ported the occurrence, and with it
made statement to the effect that
I'D to that time he had been disbe-
lever in the so called moon blink.
Paul Eve Stevenson reports that he,