People of all ages have looked upon the moon as a provider of good and bad luck, and most of us have probably noticed it has influenced our actions, at times. Here are some pf the beliefs that are centuries old.
If you see a new moon over your right shoulder, it means that you will experience good luck all the month.
If you have money in your pocket and you meet the new moon face to face, turn the money over and you will no trun short of money that month.
It is unlucky to see the new moon through glass. If you do, go out of doors, curtsey three times to the moon and turn some silver in your hand. This will break the spell which be cast over you if you do not do as directed. There is one little point, connected with this superstition, which has set us thinking. What of all those individuals who wear glasses? We do not know the answer.
There is a strongly prevalent idea that everything falling to the lot of man when the moon waxing will increase or prosper; but things decrease and do not prosper when the moon is on the wane.
If the full moon known as the Harvest Moon appears watery, it i san ill sign for the harvest. (The Harvest Moon is due about the middle of September.)
If the moon shows a silver shield, be not afraid to reap your field: but if she rises haloed round, soon we'll tread on deluged ground.
If the moon changes on a Sunday there will be a flood before the month is out.
A Saturday moon, i fit comes once in seven years, comes too soon. A fog and a small moon bring an easterly wind soon. In the waning of the moon, Cloudy morning: fair afternoon. Pale moon doth rain; red moon doth blow, White moon doth neither rain nor snow. When the moon's halo is far, the storm is near. When the moon's halo stile, the storm is far. Is has long been a custom for girls to go to nearest stile, to turn their back on the first new moon after Midsummer and to chant these verses: All hail, new moon, all hail to thee. I prithee, good moon, reveal to me, This night, who shall my true love be. Who he is and what he wears, And what he does all months and years.
Irish colleens were wont to drop on their knees when they first caught sight of the new moon, and say: „Oh, moon, leave us as well as you have found us.“ And, long ago, Yorkshire maidens „did workship the new moon on their bent knees, kneeling upon the earth-cast stone.“
The first, second and third days of the moon's age are lucky for buying and selling; the seventh, ninth and eleventh are lucky for engagements and marriage; the sixteenth and twenty-first are not lucky for anything.
