The Indians told the first settlers that if the moon lay well on her back, so that a powder-horn could be hung on the end, the weather during that moon will be dry.
Nova Scotia.

The Indians told the first settlers that if the moon lay well on her back, so that a powder-horn could be hung on the end, the weather during that moon will be dry.
Source: Current Superstitions (1896), entry 992.
Fanny D. Bergen, editor.
Modern normalized navigation; the historical attribution above remains unchanged.