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~~~~Moon Folklore~~~~~
If the New Moon is seen for the first time straight ahead, it predicts good fortune until the next New Moon.
Wood cut at the New Moon is hard to split. If it is cut at the Full Moon it is easy to split.
Crass crops should be sown at the Full Moon. Then the hay will dry quickly.
The English had a saying: that if a member of the family died at the time of the New Moon, three deaths would follow.
Many cultures felt that it was extremely unlucky to point at the Moon, and that curtseys to the Moon would bring a present before the next change of Moon.
It was often said that if a person was born at a Full Moon, he or she would have a lucky life.
Sailors believed that if the Moon, in the first or last quarter, lay in nearly a horizontal position with the horns upward, the weather would be fine. Country people say that the same type of Moon means good weather for twenty eight days.
Country people said that the weather was more likely to change at the four quarters of the Moon that at any other time.
Rain is coming when the Moon has a halo around it or when an outline can be seen between the horns of a waxing or waning Moon.
If there are two Moons (two New or two Full) in the same month, the weather will be unfavorable and unsettled until the next New Moon.
A blue moon has nothing to do with color: it is a full moon that appears in a month that has already had a full moon. Because the lunar cycle is 29.5 days, this double-mooned-month only occurs about every three years. What month will never have a blue moon? February because of it being a month with a short number of days
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