The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-29
If TOU SEE IT IN THE MOON,
No Matter what II 10. You Will Have somo
sort or Luck.

sort or Luck.
From the Chicago Timss.Hsraid.
"If you SEQ the new moon over your right
shoulder It's good luck oil the month'-over
the left shoulder being bad luck, of course. EFF
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 30 on.
this last being taken from an old black.letter
treatise on things worth knowing" Every
where in the world the idea prevails among
those who lack scientific training that anything
falling to the lot OF man when the moon Is wax.
Ign will likewise increase, similarly decreasing
while the moon wanes. Tho Hindu troubled
with warts looks at tho new moon. picks up a
pinch OF dust from beneath his left foot, rubs
the wart with it and when the moon goes, 30
does the wart. II you fall Ill you can be cured
by herbs gathered in tho full OF the moon.
The Moslen5 In the Kingdom OF Oudh cure
insomnia, palpitation OF the heart. nervous
prostration, and similar evils by stationing the
sufferer with a 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
liquid into his eyes. Then, without moving
his gaze, he is required to swallow the water at
a draught.
In northern India the people lay out food in
the full moon that comes in the months CORE.
spending 10 our September and October, half
"a S"Sa, ohu B''V ~ w tlO CAV 10 u
Of insuring longevity. That same night The
girls pour water in the moonli Sht, saying they
are getting rid Of the cold weather.
1t was long ago noted that the Yorkshire
maids do worship the new moon on their bare
knees kneeiinG upon an earth.fast stone and
on their Knees wheA tnev lirst calCn sight Of the
new vd moon 3n, and say; " - I moon, leave Us az well
seven threads from the end OF their turbans and
give them TO the new moon. with u prayer.
The spots OH the moon axe caused by many
persons or things. Sometimes II is a man with
u faeot on his back, sent tnither tor pickinAup
thief and puts u thornbush on his shoulders.
Dante says it Is no less a criminal than Cain.
Shakespeare povides a dog to keep him com
pany. Hindus 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 statement regarding the
March hare, and possibly the thornbush may be
the distinctive covering Of the hatter-at any
myth people have done; While Baring.Gould
identifies the moon children, Bill and Hiuki Of
the Northern mythology. with Jack and Gill Of
The Greenland Eskimo believes that the sun
and moon were originally brother and sister.
She, being teased BY him past ordinary endur-
ance. seized so ne lampblack and rubbed 1t 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
rose S,' one '1 nishs, 0BSp s snd r raS sSi0P Pise 'h a. b %eoa
fruit A patient mother, unable to quiet the
RsWSsS s Of aon her volt i,5'l comm Sse; a1 IS9te and Up 2, and md said said:
have a bite OF your This made the moon so
and child. and they have been there ever since.
All sailors are certain that sleeping In tropi-
cal moon rays will either make them cross-eycd
or blind. On the American vessel Fl Captain
q year or two ago a number OF the crew. disre-
garding the advice of their fellows during a
spoil OF hot weather. slept on the deck in the
moonlight and soon after went completely
blind at night, though they could see as well II
the daytime US ever. The skipper OF the ship
reported the occurrence, and with it made a
statement 10 the effect that up to that time he
blink: Paul Eve Stevenson reports that he, too.
was. hurr!edly awakened on his way TO New
York from the Bahamas with the assurance
from the Captain that all sorts OF things would
happen TO him II he slept in moonlight. This is