The weather of the new moon governs the first quarter and after that remains the same; therefore it governs the first half.
Conception Bay, N. F.

The weather of the new moon governs the first quarter and after that remains the same; therefore it governs the first half.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1000.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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