Bow to the new moon seven times the first time you see it, and you’ll get a present, or wish and you will get your wish.
New England.

Bow to the new moon seven times the first time you see it, and you’ll get a present, or wish and you will get your wish.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1092.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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