If you wean a calf at the time of the full moon, it will make less fuss. You mustn’t wean it when the sign is in the belly, or it will never grow fat. Pursue the same course with a pig, or it will squeal.
Western Massachusetts.
Superstition #1130
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 1130.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
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