Part 40 (1/2)
_Miramichi, N.B._
1102. Look at the new moon through a ring, wish something while doing so, and your wish will come true.
_Alabama._
1103. If you first see the new moon with full hands, that is, with busy hands, you will be busy, full of work, all the month; if idle, the reverse.
1104. See the new moon through a gla.s.s, See sorrow while it lasts.
_Deer Isle, Me., and Salem, Ma.s.s._
1105. If you see the new moon through trees or brush, you will have trouble that month.
_General in the United States._
1106. If you see the new moon full in front, you will meet your lover within the week.
1107. If you see the new moon face on, you will go headlong through the month.
_Salem, Ma.s.s._
1108. Moon full face, Open disgrace.
_Portland, Me._
1109. One who chances to have a cup in his hand when he first sees the new moon is destined to wait on the sick until another new moon appears.
_Alabama._
MOONLIGHT.
1110. Some say you can see the man's axe and dog in the moon.
_New Brunswick._
1111. If the moon s.h.i.+nes in your face as you lie in the bed at night, you'll die inside of a year.
_Central Maine._
1112. It is a general belief that it is dangerous to sleep with the moon s.h.i.+ning on the face. If the moon s.h.i.+nes on fish, they will spoil.
1113. Horses will be cured of any one of several diseases if you will insert a bit of silver--a dime is the favorite coin--in the part affected; but it is imperative that you do this by the ”light of the moon.”
_Clover Bend, Ark._
WAX AND WANE.
1114. Set out cabbages in the new of the moon to make them head up well, and gather apples in the new of the moon to make them keep well. Plant potatoes in the old of the moon.
_Mitch.e.l.l Co., N.C._
1115. Plant flowers in the increase of the moon.
_Pennsylvania._
1116. Be careful as to the phase of the moon when felling timber.
_General in the United States._
1117. If brush and thistles are cut down in the full moon in August when the sign is in the heart, they will never grow again.
_Copied from an agricultural paper._
1118. Gra.s.s cut when the moon is waning will not ”spend well.”