MOONLIGHT

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• #1110

  Some say you can see the man’s axe and dog in the moon.

  New Brunswick.
• #1111

  If the moon shines 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 shining on the face. If the moon shines 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.