You must never kill cattle or pigs, or even wild game, by the “dark of the moon;” it is most unlucky, and the meat will come to no good.
Clover Bend, Ark.

You must never kill cattle or pigs, or even wild game, by the “dark of the moon;” it is most unlucky, and the meat will come to no good.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1129.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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