Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-18
If YOU SEE 1T IN THE MOON.
No Matter What 1t Is, You Will Have
Some Sort of Luck.
Chicago Times-H Herald,

Chicago Times-Herald.
III you see the new moon over your
right shoulder it's good luck all the
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 month
and so on this last being 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 any
thing falling to the lot of man when
the moon is waxing will likewise in
crease, similarly decreasing while the
moon wanes. The Hindoo 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 goes 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 sufferer with
basin of water in his hands in the light
refulegent image shines directly from
the liquid into his eyes. Then, with
out moving his gaze, he is required to
swallow the water at draught.
In northern India the people lay out
food in the full moon that comes in the
months corresponding to our Septem-
Der and October, half of each and give
it to- their friends as a means of insur-
ing longevity. That same night the
girls pour water in the moonlight, say
ing they are getting rid of the cold
cold weather.
1t was long ago noted that the York
shire maids "do worship the new moon
on their bare knees, kneelne upon an
earth-fast stone" and Lady Wilde says
that the Irish damsels drop on their
knees when they first catch sight of the
new moon and say: ooh. moon. leave
us as you found u.s." In India, the ma
tives take seven threads from the ends
of the turbans and give them to the
new moon, with a prayer
The spots on the moon are caused by
many persons or things. Sometimes it
is man with fagot on his back sent
thither for picking UP sticks on the
Sabbath. Chaucer calls him a thief
and puts thorn-bush on his should
ers. Dante says it is no less a criminal
than Cain. Shakespeare provides dog
to keep him company. Hindus keep,
not man. but hare in the moon, and
the well known connection in the
minds Of the man in the moon and in
sanity may account for the statement
regarding the March hare and possibly
the thorn-bush may be the distinctive
covering of the hatter-at any rate.
this is as good as guessing as a lot of
the sun myth people have done; while
BaringGould Identifies the moon chill
dren. Bill and Hiuki, Of the northern
mythology, with Jack and Gill, of the
nursery rhyme.
The Greenland Eskimo believes that
the sun and moon were originally
brother and sister. She being leased
by him past ordinary endurance, seized
some lampblack and rubbed it on his
face. Then she ran, her brother after.
Finally she went so fast she rose I'D
into the air and became the sun. while
her sooty faced brother turned into
the moon. In Samoa when a great
famine oppressed the people, the moon
rose up one night. big and round, like
a bread fruit. A patient mother, IN
able to quiet the pangs of her little
one, looked up and said: why don't
you come down and let my baby have
bite of you?" This made the moon
so angry that she simply picked up
mother and child, and they have been
there ever since.
All sailors are certain that sleeping
in tropical moon rays will either make
them cross-eyed or blind. On the
American vessel Ell Captain, a year or
two ago number Of the crew, disre-
garding the advice Of their fellows dur
ing spell Of hot weather, slept on the
deck In the moonlight, and soon after