Moon Lore

Finally, to close this chapter where it commenced, in Chaldaea, the cradle of _star-reading_, Sir Austen Henry Layard says: "I gained, as other travellers have done before me, s...

"Certain travellers, like the author of the _Voyage au monde de Descartes_, have found, on visiting these different lunar countries, that the great men whose names they had arbi...

When we leave Europe, and look for the man in the moon under other skies, we find him, but with an altogether new aspect. He is the same, and yet another; another, yet the same....

This hare myth, attended with the usual transformation, has travelled to the Hottentots of South Africa. The fable which follows is entitled "From an original manuscript in Engl...

Hitherto we have reviewed only the imaginary influences of the moon over inanimate nature and what are called irrational beings. We have seen that this potent orb is supposed to...

Here for the present we part company with the man in the moon as material for amusement, that we may track him through the mythic maze, where, in well-nigh every language, he ha...

With these "dog-headed" worshippers of the moon may be associated another animal that from an early date has been connected with the luminaries of the day and night. We saw that...

exclaims the Epicurean poet, in thinking of the evils which superstition, characterized by that ambiguous name, had produced; and where a fierce or gloomy superstition has usurp...

It will be thought rashly iconoclastic if we cast the least doubt upon the idea that blindness is caused directly by the light of the moon. So many cases have been adduced that...

Passing on we find that "in Pontus and Phrygia were temples to _Meen_, and Homer says _Meen_ presides over the months, whilst in the Sanskrit _Mina_, we see her connected with t...

Having interrogated _sense_ and _science_, with the solution of our enigma anything but complete, we resort last of all to the argument from _analogy_. If this can illumine the...

"The Chinese generally have no rational idea of the cause of eclipses. The common explanation is that the sun or the moon has experienced some disaster. Some even affirm that th...

In Northern Mexico still "the Ceris superstitiously celebrate the new moon." [232] This luniolatry the Abbe Brasseur de Bourbourg explains by a novel theory. He holds that the f...

[Note: the original text had two footnotes 160 and two footnotes 396. I have indicated these by naming them 160a and b, and 396a and b. In the Index, I changed the spelling of "...

We have already in part pointed out that the moon has been considered as of the masculine gender; and have therefore but to travel a little farther afield to show that in the Ar...

375 See _Light: Its Influence on Life and Health_, by Forbes Winslow, M.D., D.C.L. London, 1867, p. 94. Also, _The History of Astronomy_, by George Costard, M.A. London, 1767, p...

The replies given to this query will be by no means unanimous. But, for the full understanding of the state of the main question, and to assist us in arriving at some sort of ve...

91 _Report on the Indian Tribes Inhabiting the Country in the Vicinity of the 49th Parallel of North Latitude_, by Capt. Wilson. Trans. of Ethnolog. Society of London, 1866. New...

Kirkmichael, says another writer on the Highlands of Scotland, hath "its due proportion of that superstition which generally prevails over the Highlands. Unable to account for t...