The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1897-09-17
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WHAT TIE MOON MAY DO.

month"-over the left shoulder 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 one, this last hcing taken
from an old black-letter treatise on
"things worth knowing" Everywhere
in the world the idea prevails among
those who lack scientific training that
ANYTHING falling to the lot OF man
when the moon is waxing viii ike
wise increase; similarly decreasing
while the moon wanes. The llindu
troubled with warts looks at the new
moon, picks up 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 III you can
be cured by herbs gathered in the full
of the moon Jessica says:
'In such u night Mcdea gathered the en-
chanted herbs
That did renew old Acson."
And Laertcs speaks of the poison
collected from all sImples that have
virtue under the moon
Every farmer knows how much bet
ter it is to SOW at one time than an
other. Old Tusscr wrote long ago, IN
his give Hundred Points OF Good
Uusbandry:"
.sow peas and beans in the wane OF the
moon,
Who sowcth them sooner, he soweth too sooni
That they with the planet may rest and arlse,
And flourish, with bearing most plentiful
wise"
The Moslems in the Kingdom of
Oudh cure insomnia, palpltatlon OF
the heart, nervous prostratioh ana
similar evils by s%tationing the suffer
err with a basin of water in his hands
in the light of the full moon in such
way that its refulgent image shines
directly from the liquid into his eyes
Then. without moving his gaze, he Is
required to swallow the water at
draft.
In Northern India the people la.
out food in the full noon that come.
in the months corresponding to on
Septembcr and October, half of each
and give it to their friends, as a means
of insuring longevity. That same
night the girls pour water in the
moonlight, saying they are gcttIn!
rid of the cold weather.
1t was long ago noted that the YORK
shire maids edo worshipth new moor
on their bare knees, knccling upon al
carthfaSt stone" and Lady VIVID
SAYS that the Irish damsels drop o.
their knees when they first catch Sign
of the new moon and say: "Oh, moor
leave us as well as you found us" !
India the natives take seven thread
from the end of their turbans an
give them to the new moon with
prayer.
The spots ON the moon are cause
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times it is "A man with a fagOt on Ii
lack, sent thither for picking up sticl
on the Sabbath. Chauccr calls him
thief and puts a thornbush on h
shoulders. Dante says it is no less
criminal than Cain. Shakespeare pr
vides a dog to keep him compan
Hindus keep, not a man, but a hare
the moon: and the well-known co
nection in the minds Of the man
the moon and insanity may accon
for the statement regarding the Mar
hare, and possibly the thorn-bush W
be the distinctive covering of t
Hatter-at any rate, this is as 90
guessing as a lot Of the sun myth p'
ME have done; while Baring-Gol
identities the moon children, Bill a
Hiuki, of the northern mytholol
with Jack and Gill of the nurse
rhyme.
The Greenland Eskimo believes til
the sun and moon were origina
brother and sister. She, being teas
by him past ordinary induran'
seized some lampblack ndirubbed
on his place. Then she ran, her brol
er after. Finally She went so fast S
rose up into the air and became t
sun, while her soOty-faccd broth
turned into the moon. In Sam
when a great famine oppressed t
people the moor rose one night, /
andround, like a bread fruit. A pa
ent mother, unable to quiet the pal
of her little one, looked up and saj
"Why don't you come down and let
baby have a bite of yOu?" This M
the moon so angry that she sin
picked up both mother and child, a
they have been there ever since.
All sailors are certain that slcepi
in tropical moonrays will either ma
them cross-eycd or blind. On
American vessel I'll Captain, a year
two ago, a number of the crew, dis
garding the advice of their fcllt
during a spell of hot weather, slept
the deck in the moonlight, and Sc
after went completely blind at mig
though they could see as well in
daytime as ever. The skipper OF
ship reported the occurrence, and W
it made "A statement to the effect 81
up to that time he had been Il dis
lever ia the so.called moon bli
Paul Eye Stevenson reports that
too was hurricdly Weakened on his Y
70 New York from the bahamas "
the assurance from the captain u
all sorts of things would happen
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